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USPS Service Kiosks Taking Pictures of Customers
NW writes "According to FOIA documents obtained by EPIC new Postal Service self-service postage machines take portrait-style photographs of customers and retain them for 30 days." IBM is the contractor behind the kiosks. Note that the kiosk is supposed to not complete the transaction if it determines the photograph has been compromised, so simply covering the camera is unlikely to work. As the cost of cameras and digital storage approaches zero, is it inevitable that every machine you interact with will take your photograph and store it?
... you put a paper bag over your head during sex ?
Some sort of pre-emptive maneuver ?
I suppose it can only be a sad indictment that this comment was modded +1 Funny.
Maybe I left my sense of humour in my other jacket...