kallend 2,175 #1 February 18, 2014 Now the lights are watching you. www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/business/at-newark-airport-the-lights-are-on-and-theyre-watching-you.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bakerjan 0 #2 February 19, 2014 Iago***Now the lights are watching you. www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/business/at-newark-airport-the-lights-are-on-and-theyre-watching-you.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0 It's not really the cameras, but the software behind it. Used for purposes of increasing efficiency (i.e. Checkpoint 2 is getting kinda long, let's move agents from 3 to open up other lines) I'm not really having an issue. Cameras have been watching us for a long time. Now, where the 'grey' area pops up is when they start logging and data-mining. When you park your car at the airport lot it records your plate. That's how they know that a car has been sitting there for six months and should probably be towed as abandoned. OK, no problem there. But recording the facial recognition specs on everyone who walks through the various areas of the airport, or keeping every license plate that picks up someone in baggage claim, I'm seeing a big problem with that. Retail stores have been using this type of stuff for a while. The cameras at target can recognize when someone falls, flag a customer that has been idle in a certain location and may need help finding an item, things like that. When they start texting me with a coupon because I've been standing in the cereal aisle clearly indecisive between Kelloggs and General Mills, well that's just plain creepy. Minority Report writ real, LOL. Jan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
headoverheels 334 #3 February 19, 2014 Kaczynski did have a point. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stumpy 284 #4 February 19, 2014 Iago When they start deploying the iris scanners, yep. We're there. The tech is there, the software is there, it's all been proven and is being used in high security applications. It's just not fast enough. Iris scanners are in fact overkill and not really required. It can all be done with facial recognition today. The only reason its not is because the companies that CAN do it are well aware that it would be seen as "creepy".Never try to eat more than you can lift Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,175 #5 February 19, 2014 More: www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/mass-surveillance-of-all-car-trips-is-nearly-upon-us/283922/?google_editors_picks=true... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 3 #6 February 19, 2014 QuoteAll too frequently, these data are retained permanently... ...as in, "always". Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. A slight tangent: occasionally I represent clients seeking a court order to get an arrest record expunged. I do it, but I always give them a reality check: even though the court order commands the various authorities to destroy the records, if they think that really happens 100% - especially nowadays when everything is archived digitally and subject to infinite copying, they should forget it. The best they can hope for is that it gets buried enough to keep out of sight of private-sector employers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
