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If Google buys Dropcam, say goodbye to privacy forever
- x1798DE 12y agoBit of a hyperbolic title for an entirely-speculative article here. I'm concerned about privacy myself and I wouldn't be running some surveillance camera that streams my video in anything but an end-to-end encrypted manner anyway, but it seems a bit strange to imagine that this is the end of privacy "forever". The article doesn't explain exactly what the privacy violations would be, but implies that Google would monitor you at all times - which seems unlikely given that surveillance videos aren't exactly machine-readable data. Unless they're just storing videos of everything you do to watch them for market research (seems very unlikely according to their business model, and would likely be a dumb PR move to even do it in secret), what extra information could they really get? When you come and go? They'd probably be able to get that much more accurately from data they're already getting from Android location data. Sure it's creepy that the company that reads your e-mail and tracks your web searches and locations wants to buy a surveillance camera company, but realistically, this is likely to be much less intrusive than what they're already doing.
- anigbrowl 12y agoIt's a dreadful article, just overwritten adolescent FUD pandering ot he biases of readers. At the extreme, though, with an evenly-distributed network of security cameras, you could track one individual's comngs and going and activities by aggregating Kinect-like motion/gait recognition across a (theoretical) array of always-on cameras. Realistically pulling data from people's phones already delivers 90% of the same capability, but this could track you when you leave your phone at home.