The government should also ban video surveillance analytics in publicly accessible spaces, perhaps with exceptions for rare cases such as the detection of bodies on train tracks. Such a ban would disincentivize mass camera deployments because video analytics is needed to analyze large volumes of footage. Courts should urgently reconsider the scope of the Fourth Amendment and expand our right to privacy in public.
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“Framing is everything,” Barrett added. “Relying on the premise of ‘people choose to be tracked so our project has to be talking them out of it, not arguing that the surveillers need more accountability’ gives tech lobbyists who make those self-serving arguments credibility they don’t deserve.”
‘Is the Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.’ The New York Times published the first piece in its “One Nation, Tracked” investigation based on a data set with over 50 billion location pings. by Jessica Corbett, The New York Times’ The data, from 2016 and 2017, “was provided to Times Opinion by sources “The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public
Unless, of course, government and regulators decide to take an active interest. On the current outlook, any such move will not be led by Australia, a country still trying to figure out an electric power policy and how to hook up a national broadband.
Unfortunately, here in the land of the Luddites, we are still struggling with the problems of the last century while Big Tech invisibly decides how we will live in the next. Alexa might know the answer, but “she’s” not telling.
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