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The privacy concerns with systems like these is not what they currently do, but what they are capable of. It doesn't matter what your privacy policy says, and
by admax88q 12y ago
The privacy concerns with systems like these is not what they currently do, but what they are capable of.
It doesn't matter what your privacy policy says, and it doesn't matter if the default configuration is to only download the audio near the time of a possible gunshot.
The important part is that these devices can stream audio to remote servers. The NSA or anybody who finds or can coerce accesses to the system could use them to eavesdrop on everything within range.
No amount of "privacy policy" is going to prevent it.
- wl 12y agoThat's assuming that audio from these sensors is at all useful for eavesdropping on people. Try a speakerphone lately? Even with higher quality codecs than we got in the POTS days and things like beamforming, the result is pretty terrible in decent sized conference rooms. Now try this outdoors, further away from people, with the noise floor of a city instead of a quiet room. The cases people point to where ShotSpotter has picked up understandable words have been people very close to sensors who were shouting immediately before, during, or after gunfire the system picked up. But at that point, it's unreasonable to claim some sort of violation of privacy when people are screaming for all to hear.