Complacency

[Eugene Leitl]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Paul Sholtz wrote:

> The fact that you're on camera when you're walking down the street
> might be creepy, but the fact is that this is information that has
> *always* been available to the public sphere anyway. Now it can just

That's absolutely wrong. The concentration of flatfoots in a given area
has always been small, and their recognition capabilities limited to few
10 individuals at best, and that information was coupled with very high
latency to paper/flesh machines with ridiculous latency and processivity.

Now coverage can be complete, both spatially and temporally, tracking a
subject with a given face metric (if you have a face, you're a suspect)
with essentially realtime latency (seconds), with full logging and data
mining capability.

We're not there yet, but we can be there in a heartbeat. I wouldn't trust
angelic beings of pure love and light with these technologies. Now, we've
had fine examples of human capabilities in the Dshugashvili and
Schicklgruber family lines, are you willing to wait for another such
instance winding up at the helm?

> be recorded, indexed and retrieved more efficiently. It is, however,
> unclear whether such monitoring is truly an "unreasonable search and
> seizure" as per the 4th amendment.

Amendmend, smamendment. I don't care about your 4th amendment. If
something can be abused you better look lively to contain it.

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a>
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