Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by patrickg_zill on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:09PM (#17475493)

As long as I or you can use it to track the coming and going of your Congressman and Senators, at the same price that Amazon charges others, I guess it is okay. That nice townhouse he visited with the attractive blonde who lives there, while his wife was out of town? It's ok for me to track and then publish the info, right?

We're all equal when we are in public view, right?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by driverdan on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:26PM (#17475593)

I've long wanted to setup a system like this.

Cameras facing all entrances and exits of the state capitol would be fed into ALPR and facial recognition software. There are enough photos of elected officials to train facial recognition. It would be easy to identify who is coming and going, what cars they own, who they travel with, and their patterns.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by gowld on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:19PM (#17475846)

NYT did it.

https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-softwar...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday July 07, 2018 @01:56AM (#17477283)

Politicians should have less right to privacy than us citizens.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by mirimir on Saturday July 07, 2018 @02:18AM (#17477337)

Everyone with substantial power should have less privacy. Politicians should have almost none.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by lovemenot on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:12AM (#17477636)

That was a core idea for the British Establishment.

Public school was where children went to learn how to operate in public life. The rest of the population had less privilege, but more privacy.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by deleted_account on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:31PM (#17475627)

That just sounds like journalism to me, so: "Yes, it's ok."

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by gowld on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:20PM (#17475849)

Says you. But will the police/FBI/DA agree, or say it's terroristic stalking?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by thatfrenchguy on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:58PM (#17476022)

But why do you care ?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by atomical on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:16PM (#17476076)

Imagine license plate readers all over town committing license plate numbers to a blockchain.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by ShorsHammer on Saturday July 07, 2018 @02:05AM (#17477306)

Add MAC addresses passing through major intersections and you've got some quality data to work with.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by imaoreo on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:43PM (#17476192)

California is already rolling out "smart" licence plates, so not far off.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by krick on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:51PM (#17476209)

What do you mean by "committing license plate numbers to a blockchain"?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by Latteland on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:52PM (#17476408)

Probably that the records are preserved in some way that they can't be redacted or removed later.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by krick on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:08PM (#17476735)

What records? I don't understand what this is supposed to describe. Just writing every plate number some device has seen to the append-only DB? Is that it? What's value in that?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People by stilldavid on Saturday July 07, 2018 @12:10AM (#17476945)

I think the value would be with recording a location and time with the plate number, not just that a plate exists.

[ Parent | on HN ]