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Life Recorder

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-around-the-bend dept.

Bruce Schneier writes "In 2006, writing about future threats on privacy, I described a life recorder: A 'life recorder' you can wear on your lapel that constantly records is still a few generations off: 200 gigabytes/year for audio and 700 gigabytes/year for video. It'll be sold as a security device, so that no one can attack you without being recorded."

6 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Rogue-like by InsprdInsnty · · Score: 5, Interesting

    or wearing a disguise of any sort

  2. Can't use it in MD by ColdBoot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MD is a 2 party consent state - can't use it here!

  3. Re:Rogue-like by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll just steal your "Life Recorder" after I beat you up. Thanks for understanding.

  4. Copyrights? by Thiez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good luck getting into a cinema wearing one of those.

  5. Bicycling by ciaohound · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about a bicycle-ride recorder, for the next time someone throws trash at you or yells obscenities.

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  6. Stealth as the only option by Zero_DgZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I sort of use something like this today, in the gritty old present day.

    In my car I've got one of my old PDA's mounted instead of a GPS device. It's rather firmly permanently mounted to the dash until you take all the bezels off and unscrew it from the back, so I consider its risk for theft fairly low. Also, it's not mounted in the usual look-at-me GPS area but down by the driver's side kick plate.

    Anyway, I have it there because I use Pocket Excel (don't laugh) to keep track of all my invoices and orders for the day. I also have a mapping program installed, and obviously it uses GPS. I've successfully used it to defuse two frivolous traffic tickets by less-than-scrupulous police officers: Once by making it a policy to keep all of my GPS logs, and once by happening to have a hotkey for the note taker "record" function bound, so I could easily and silently (also legally, in this state!) record everything the lying police officer said.

    I've also seen on DealExtreme and other places some always-on, rolling-record capable video cameras for mounting wherever, and I've been tempted to pick one up and mount it in my car, police car style. Mailing a CD-R every month to the local precinct with video of their police officers flagrantly breaking traffic laws would be optional, but probably a lot of fun the first couple of times.

    Remember: Big Brother is only bad for you if you are not personally Big Brother!