How will this tie in with face-in-the-crowd situations that we read about on this site every day? Couldn't this new digital camera lead to the government taking away more of our rights? Keep reading, I'm reaching a point...
What I mean to say is, we read about facial recognition software and the way that the government abuses it every day here on Slashdot and on other privacy sites. With the ever-higher resolutions on these cameras, it will only make it that much easier for a computer to pick out someone's face in a crowd, tieing them into a huge database of personal data that the government keeps a secret and taking away their Constitutional right to privacy. The potential consequences are astounding.
I think perhaps we should think more carefully about the implications of such an advance in technology before we go ahead with blindly cheering it on. Dire predictions just might turn out to be true.
I was recently contemplating the same thing
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I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about how he had taken one of those programs in which you "make" your own battle robot out of assembly code, and had written a program that wrote a bunch of them and then matched them up, combining the instructions of the winning bots to form the next generation.
This got me intrigued, so I hopped on to Google, and, lo and behold, this is what I found. Probably one of the more interesting works that I have read online in quite some time, although there were parts that I didn't understand since I haven't yet taken enough coursees in high math to properly comprehend them.
Perhaps you should avail yourself of the facts before you go shooting your mouth off like that. I really hope you aren't an American, because your lack of konwledge about our constitution is appalling.
What I want to find out is what the BBC is going to do with the contestants names?
Hang with me for a minute here. If you are entering into their little contest, I would assume that you are at the very least going to give them your name, phone number, address, etc. Add this to the fact that Britons don't seem to give a damn about other peoples' privacy (witness the pervasiveness of surveillance cameras in their country), and I can see genuine concerns arising.
What will the BBC do? Sell your data to marketers who need to target the geek and engineer audience? Because, as we've already established, this is an OK thing to do in their country. I would recommend that any freedom-loving person stay out of this contest for as long as you value your privacy. Who knows, one day, your life may depend on it!
Sure, you would like to think that this is going to be some kind of pretty model of chaotic systems, but it is really GNU giving their blessing to government spyware.
Now not only do you have the Feds watching everything you do online, but you also have the approval of those who claim to fight for your "freedom". What a joke, indeed. It is time that we, the freedom-loving citizens of the Internet, teach these people that it is not ever acceptable to watch other peoples' network traffic. This is a violation of privacy pure and simple and if we need cause a great disturbance in protest against such a thing, then so be it. We will retain our right to privacy.
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What I mean to say is, we read about facial recognition software and the way that the government abuses it every day here on Slashdot and on other privacy sites. With the ever-higher resolutions on these cameras, it will only make it that much easier for a computer to pick out someone's face in a crowd, tieing them into a huge database of personal data that the government keeps a secret and taking away their Constitutional right to privacy. The potential consequences are astounding.
I think perhaps we should think more carefully about the implications of such an advance in technology before we go ahead with blindly cheering it on. Dire predictions just might turn out to be true.
This got me intrigued, so I hopped on to Google, and, lo and behold, this is what I found. Probably one of the more interesting works that I have read online in quite some time, although there were parts that I didn't understand since I haven't yet taken enough coursees in high math to properly comprehend them.
Perhaps you should avail yourself of the facts before you go shooting your mouth off like that. I really hope you aren't an American, because your lack of konwledge about our constitution is appalling.
Hang with me for a minute here. If you are entering into their little contest, I would assume that you are at the very least going to give them your name, phone number, address, etc. Add this to the fact that Britons don't seem to give a damn about other peoples' privacy (witness the pervasiveness of surveillance cameras in their country), and I can see genuine concerns arising.
What will the BBC do? Sell your data to marketers who need to target the geek and engineer audience? Because, as we've already established, this is an OK thing to do in their country. I would recommend that any freedom-loving person stay out of this contest for as long as you value your privacy. Who knows, one day, your life may depend on it!
Now not only do you have the Feds watching everything you do online, but you also have the approval of those who claim to fight for your "freedom". What a joke, indeed. It is time that we, the freedom-loving citizens of the Internet, teach these people that it is not ever acceptable to watch other peoples' network traffic. This is a violation of privacy pure and simple and if we need cause a great disturbance in protest against such a thing, then so be it. We will retain our right to privacy.
If you can see this, then the world is still okay.