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Accurate or not, so we really want companies installing microphones all over where we live that sends the data to the police? That is worse than 1984 because in
by gentleman11 4y ago
Accurate or not, so we really want companies installing microphones all over where we live that sends the data to the police? That is worse than 1984 because in 1984 the police didn’t have ai profiling everything it finds. Ie, imagine a company that was competent who did this
- Animats 4y agoThe origianl was a 1990s weatherproof omnidirectional microphone on top of a telephone pole, connected to an analog phone line. That would be pretty hopeless at picking up conversations at ground level. Combining signals from microphones maybe a block apart yielded direction. Today, there are steerable microphone arrays.[1] That technology was first demonstrated around 2010. Now it's commercially available. Simple ones with a few channels are used for video conferencing. Surveillance microphone arrays that record a few hundred microphone channels individually exist. These allow steering the beam during playback, so the surveillance operator can choose where to listen long after the recording. Needs a lot of bandwidth and storage, but no worse than HD video. Still, the range of that sort of thing for voice is maybe 10 meters. They're installed on ceilings, not outdoors. [1] https://youtu.be/_kjEmIA38pI https://youtu.be/_kjEmIA38pI