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doesn't matter if you post photos of yourself online, very likely it will be others that do so. And your image is being digitally captured constantly, if you tr
by hnriot 12y ago
doesn't matter if you post photos of yourself online, very likely it will be others that do so. And your image is being digitally captured constantly, if you travel on public transport or go through an airport, or do anything in a public place your photo has been captured many times. Figuring that it's you is also pretty straightforward. All it takes is a DMV hack or Facebook (where one of your coworkers tagged you in a photo, or instagram where your niece tagged you by the bbq on july 4th etc etc etc...
- AJ007 12y agoStroll through a few blocks of midtown Manhattan and you'll end up on hundreds of security cameras and in the backgrounds of a handful of tourists photos. Add a few more years and your image and gait will be continuously recorded by a swarm of 3D camera phones, self driving vehicles, and police drones. Authentication of a crime may require not one but a diverse set of recordings from multiple entities. Validating that the person you are talking to on Skype is indeed your mom may require a cryptographic key exchange (and a damn good reason it won't be Skype but a tool that can be verified by third parties.) For those of us who grew up reading Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and other cyberpunk yarns: that is today, we are living in that world at this moment.
- imaginenore 12y agoAnd how much of that footage do YOU have access to to mess with my life? Zero.
- nkozyra 12y agoIn the future, we are all in porn.
- elwell 12y agoWhile I think this is a derangement of society, I can imagine a porn app that let's you drop in a facebook id to superimpose your crush's likeness upon a porn actor.