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January 31, 2007

Limiting Surveillance

From Wired News:

A short opinion piece on the long term implications/threats of surveillance. The last paragraph was very interesting to me:

We can choose to use highly invasive technologies only for the more serious security and law enforcement purposes. But we must build those restrictions into the machines themselves. Law alone will not be enough to control the natural human desire to use technology for all it is capable of doing, regardless of our values or goals. The inevitable alternative is mission creep.

I know vendors have sold smart camera systems that are capable of respecting various restrictions, e.g., such as the IBM system that allows images of individuals not under suspicion to be stripped out (link). But how many governments or corporations have asked/mandated these features when they purchase smart camera systems?

Posted by rshah at January 31, 2007 10:02 AM

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