From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 06:52:52 MDT
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> I wonder when this system will come to Virginia. If we had it now, the
> Virginia sniper would hardly even make it into national news - he
> would have been caught after the first shooting.
Am I the only one who thinks that a system allowing you to obtain complete
trajectories and fingerprints of all moving objects on a 24/7/365 manner
in realtime something that is bound to be abused, and abused horribly?
Think of all the pattern matching and crosscorellation analysis you could
do with that data. <SHUDDER>
Technology is an asymmetrical enabler, since favouring centralism. Why
giving up privacy, which is irreversible, in face of statistically
insignificant threats? The mind boggles.
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