Re:Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from s...
by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:41PM
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Agreed. I often waffle about whether to blind a camera--not based on where it is pointing but based on where I think the data is going.
If you want to be able to see in front of your business without going outside, fine.
If you want to feed that data into a citywide network which the police can query to see who was where at which time, less fine.
Re:Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from s...
by phatskat on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:46PM
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> If you want to feed that data into a citywide network which the police can query to see who was where at which time, less fine.
This is pretty much Ring’s secondary purpose, at least as Amazon continues to loosen their data privacy when it comes to LEO requests.
Re:Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from s...
by oivey on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:30PM
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> Well, if allll someone needs is to detect giant missiles roaring into the edge of space on a pillar of fire, then we should be ultra-suspicious if they start building a system which goes beyond that into, say, following around the hot-spots of individual human heads.
I think you missed another possibility: that they make your head as hot as giant missile. Constant vigilance!
Which is also concerning if the consequence of that mere-observation becomes something like "Oh, the house of Citizen #DYSTO-48195812 had its lights on during interval X-Y."
"Privacy" isn't about the raw mechanics of observation, it's about capabilities and powers and how those might be abused by other humans.
> intercontinental ballistic missiles
Well, if allll someone needs is to detect giant missiles roaring into the edge of space on a pillar of fire, then we should be ultra-suspicious if they start building a system which goes beyond that into, say, following around the hot-spots of individual human heads.