Re:A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
by rebuilder on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:09AM
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Here's a terrific-terrible idea: let's create an open network of surveillance cameras with facial recognition. Permanent logs, free access to all, an easy search function, plot all events on a map with timestamps. Should kick up a storm.
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Re:A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
by dumb-saint on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:21AM
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That is a great idea, but it will not work. People will say that only the government and big corporations can be trusted with that data, because of reasons.
Re:A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
by 13of40 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:14AM
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I think it's a terrible idea. If I decide to call in sick and go lamp shopping, there's a vast difference between the FBI or Google being able to track me, with some effort, and my boss being able to idly hit a web page and see where I am. At the end of the day most of us are hiding trivial, below-the-radar infidelities, not dragging dismembered bodies around in suitcases or plotting revolutions.