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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?
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?
No, but as michael keeps posting paranoid left-wing drivel as commentary to each story to the front page of slashdot, it's inevitable that I and a lot of other people will stop reading it.
I think it's time to visit my slashdot homepage preferences...
In government Russia, Kiosk tells you to stop complaining about atm fee.
shes just scared those bedroom pics will end up on the web
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
you believe that bs about arabs dont you.
that is exactly why airport security goes out of their way to "not pick on" arabs.
they are afraid to search them.
such blatant idiocy spouting off a bunch of garbage they heard somewhere.
... 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...
Where's the red stripe at the top? 13 stripes for 13 colonies. I can understand not getting all 50 stars in the icon (due to size and perspective), but not having 13 stripes just looks bad.
Use a clean one.