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As the article says, "Before the advent of these new technologies, time and effort created effective barriers to surveillance abuse. But those barriers are now
by wes-exp 13y ago
As the article says,
"Before the advent of these new technologies, time and effort created effective barriers to surveillance abuse. But those barriers are now being removed. They must be rebuilt in the law."
Time and effort maintained privacy in the past, by default. However, as technology improves, privacy is no longer the default, so we need to request it, specifically.
I hear again and again that "no one cares about privacy", but I'm starting to think this is a relic of the past. Perhaps 10 years from now we will say "no one used to care about privacy, but that was before technology became sufficiently advanced."
- astrodust 13y agoGuess it's time for dazzle paint to become a trendy new fashion statement. (Example: http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/). Someone like Lady Gaga is basically untrackable if she's wearing any of her usual ununsual outfits.
- buncle 13y agoLet me just fetch my meat-suit... and meat-cap.
- CodeCube 13y agohaha ... I totally understand that GP didn't mean it this way. But there is something really funny about that statement, as if walking around with a bedazzled face won't make it easy to just say, "the person with the bedazzled face" to describe a very specific person :P
- btbuildem 13y agoExcept for the part where you're a person wearing a highly unusual outfit..
- amirmc 13y agoWhich the machine won't recognise as a person (and will discard). It would take a human to track you but that's old school. Of course, that's only until gait recognition takes over from face recognition.
- astrodust 13y agoExactly. It's easy to get a computer to track everyone automatically, but really expensive to hire people to track everyone simultaneously. You'll stand out more to a human observer, but to a computer you'll be invisible. Or you could just have really dark skin. That usually works just as well. (Example: http://www.gamespot.com/news/kinect-has-problems-recognizing-dark-skinned-users-6283514 http://www.gamespot.com/news/kinect-has-problems-recognizing...)
- btbuildem 13y agoI'm guessing a reco fail raises flags -- so if you try to cheat the system, it just escalates than instance to an outsourced turk somewhere..
- differentView 13y agoThis tech will have a hard time in Korea. http://i.imgur.com/1IoM5AK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1IoM5AK.jpg