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What's interesting to me about this is how people focus on the 'collection' aspect. But the collection of digital video of people in public spaces with minor (a
by darawk 6y ago
What's interesting to me about this is how people focus on the 'collection' aspect. But the collection of digital video of people in public spaces with minor (at best) notification (e.g. "smile you're on camera" stickers) has been going on for decades. There's nothing new there at all. So purely from the perspective of collecting data, it seems to me to be well within the purview of established commercial behavior, what they were doing.
The novelty here is not the collection, it's the analysis. And that makes for a kind of interesting legal distinction that hasn't been made in any other domain, as far as I know. A distinction whereby the collection is legal, the retention is legal, but certain types of analysis may not be.
- kkiptum 6y agoHi, It is possible, though not well documented, that in China they actually do analyze[0] the image data from video cameras. That said this would be a case study in what that means from a free and open society. [0] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-a...
- bsenftner 6y agoOther than those in the industry, like me, you're the only person in these comments astute enough to realize this.