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The people currently trying to track everything you do online would really love a future where they can also track all your offline physical activity and map "i

by pdkl95 6y ago

The people currently trying to track everything you do online would really love a future where they can also track all your offline physical activity and map "inside of buildings and homes and all the objects inside of them". Raph Koster predicted[1] this years ago. I hope anybody implementing this type of tech remembers that all tech is dual use. To understand the full impact of a proposed technology, Raph Koster advised[2], "Every feature must be looked at as a weapon." Promising that "...any faces and license plates captured by Aria glasses wearers will be anonymized." doesn't even begin to address the ways this technology could be used maliciously. [1] https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/06/11/how-to-build-the-scary-future-today/ https://www.raphkoster.com/2014/06/11/how-to-build-the-scary... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4

KaiserPro 6y ago
The problem is that the threat is multifaceted. You have the provider aggregation threat: where a service provider could track and map all known faces within reach of any of their user's glasses. Then there app threat, where an ondevice application that does something "cool" also harvest everything that it can see. Then there is the government actor threat: where a government piggybacks/creates a law to make sure all movements of type x are recorded. Its a whole new dimension of fuckery, and its something I worry about.