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Reminds me of the scramble suits from A Scanner Darkly. As government surveillance technologies improve, the anonymity (and accompanying privacy) that once acc
by nwj 14y ago
Reminds me of the scramble suits from A Scanner Darkly.
As government surveillance technologies improve, the anonymity (and accompanying privacy) that once accompanied some areas of public life is at risk.
Public opposition to that trend has largely come in the form of calls for better legal protections. However, my suspicion is that ultimately it will be the arms race between surveillance technologies and technologies like this product that determine what happens to public anonymity.
- tsieling 14y agoSurveillance that is only triggered by a (dangerous) infraction is a far cry from the kind you read about in dystopian novels, or the newspaper for that matter.