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Cool tech, I have to say. But... Clearly it opens up a big can of privacy worms. I suppose at an airport this will work because nobody really has any expectati
by GekkePrutser 4y ago
Cool tech, I have to say.
But... Clearly it opens up a big can of privacy worms. I suppose at an airport this will work because nobody really has any expectation of privacy there anymore.
The question is more about what's next. I'm walking through the local high street and the signs try to point me to the local Ecco shop because I bought my shoes more than a year ago?
- dzhiurgis 4y agoWhat I’d be concerned isn’t improved ads, but lack of such tech in healthcare and civil services. All these cameras should be able to predict heart attack, let alone calling ambulance and immediately knowing your entire health history and next best action…
- GekkePrutser 4y agoEven if it's used 'for good' I'd have a problem with that. And not just me, in the Netherlands we had a huge public discussion about a central health register, and the end result was an opt-in which many people didn't do. As far as I know it's still opt-in. I never opted in, though I don't live there anymore. And here in Spain I don't have a choice, they're not as privacy-conscious here.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoGo to a private clinic and you’ll have your privacy If healthcare is socialise IMO it’s worth contributing your data, not only taxes.
- dredmorbius 4y agoOddlly enough, private clinics mandate signing over data to be shared with "parners" on a regular basis in non-negotiable patient service "agreements".
- dzhiurgis 4y agoBut at least you’re not selling out to big brother, only to big corp!
- dredmorbius 4y agoSurveillance capitalism feeds the surveillance state, and vice versa.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI personally think privacy is a fundamental human right that trumps this. But it's an opinion of course. And private healthcare is also socialised. Just among a smaller group of contributors (those subscribing to the private health insurance) and someone is grabbing profit from it. It's not all that different.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoMixing up private health insurance vs going to private clinic and paying out of pocket. I don’t see how digitising and centralising your medical info into a useful form is any different vs keeping everything in paper in terms for privacy. Do you argue we have no medical records in any form?
- 13of40 4y agoI traveled internationally for the first time since 2019 recently. Coming back to Seattle, I was prepared for an hour of queuing up at kiosks, getting body scanned, getting facially recognized, etc. to get back into the country. To my surprise, I just had one guy ask me 3 questions and point what looked like a cheap webcam at my face. On the one hand, that's convenient. On the other hand it probably means they've gotten so good in the last couple of years they can know everything about you by pointing a cheap webcam at your face, and all that other stuff is just redundant now.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoYeah it makes you wonder... I think a lot of efforts have been refocused on Corona prevention over the last two years. And a lot of security workers were laid off during this time. In the Netherlands (and several other EU countries) the airports are in total chaos now because they are so understaffed. I wouldn't be surprised if some formalities that were always of questionable effectiveness (often known as security theater) were just toned down a bit. Also, your passport photo is probably in a database somewhere already :) They're supposed to delete it after issuing the passport, but there have been several incidents noted by privacy watchdogs where the government 'forgot' to actually do this (and the fingerprints too).