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If people really cared about these types of privacy issues they would delete things like Facebook off their phones, but they don't because it's more important to have Facebook. Sure some people might not come, but others still will. Anyway anybody remember the laptop ban that the US was going to implement on all flights coming to the US? How many people from the UK didn't come to the US because of that? Probably zero as people from the UK weren't affected. While I obviously am concerned with headline like this, and worry that we do move closer and closer to a police state, I honestly think that what companies like Google are doing is already far worse, but people don't care.
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Initially it may be a choice, short convenient line, or long slow line, but eventually TSA could (probably will) mandate it. Then your choice becomes to fly or not to fly!
On a similar subject once we do get autonomous cars, I think there success will be driven in a similar way. Do you want to be in the fast non-congested lane or do you want to sit in traffic forever!
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This is an excerpt from this months police chiefs community newsletter/email where I live.
The testing of a single Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system has been working very well. The single ALPR has been found to be a very useful tool for our officers and detectives. The ALPR thus far, has identified stolen vehicles, stolen license plates, vehicles involved in other high-profile crimes and even a sex offender. At this weeks Police Commission meeting, the Commission voted that XXX should expand the testing by obtaining additional ALPR and expanding the size of the test. We will be presenting a request to the city councils over the next few weeks to consider a larger scale test of the technology (20 Units) to assist our officers and detectives even more. The use of ALPR technology works in the background, and only identifies and notifies law enforcement personnel of wanted vehicles that are already in both State and National Data bases. We hope that the expanded testing will further validate the usefulness of this type of equipment and make the Villages an even safer place to live.
The long-term goal is that once we have additional systems in place, and after further validation, that the XXX could allow additional ALPR’s (individual neighborhoods, associations, and streets) to obtain their own systems and link them to the XXX. This would help compliment what we call a “layered” public safety effect. Starting with individual home alarm and video systems, doorbell cameras, neighborhood ALPR’s and village ALPR’s. You combine these layers along with XXX programs such as house watches and no soliciting registrations, our proactive patrols and detective use of crime scene investigative best practices and we will have a very strong, upper hand against crime.. Please let me know your thoughts at XXX
A Motorola Solutions patent application published on July 4 lays out a method for tracking and identifying customers who frequently change their mobile devices. Why? Well, that would be because individuals who use more than an unspecified number of phones are "potential criminals" — at least according to Motorola.
The patent application, which was initially filed in 2016, is shocking in its level of presumption and, frankly, creepiness.
"During operation, a server continuously receives facial recognition data for individuals along with device IDs detected at the time the facial recognition data was obtained," reads the application. "Devices associated with the individual are determined. This process is repeated and a determination is made as to whether the devices associated with the individual have changed."
Just in case anyone was in any way confused, the application adds that "[an] individual that frequently changes devices will be identified as suspicious."
While it stands to reason that those up to no good might switch phones frequently in order to avoid being tracked, so might journalists, human rights workers, or members of various at-risk communities. Developing technology meant to track and identify those individuals raises numerous privacy questions this patent application makes no serious attempt at addressing.
For anyone who can't access WaPo, here are the first few paragraphs:
From a tech point of view, this is entirely reasonable -- the fact that it can be done means it will be done. From the standpoint that personal data should belong to the person concerned (and this definitely includes what your face looks like in a stored photo), this is not reasonable at all.
There are some limits that need to be applied here.