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Originally Posted by Rochard
It was only a matter of time... We will have zero privacy.
This will make things difficult for criminals for sure.
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This tech is much further along than you can imagine. I have followed it even before I was part of it.
It is already 3 steps ahead of what you might comprehend. It has been used by law enforcement, mainly the FBI and NSA for many years now.
2 things that might surprise you is that Facebook has been working with the government and they developed highly accurate tech to extract that info from your online video and photos, and surveillance cameras .
Some years ago, they discovered the secret to the high accuracy and that was that they had to quit looking at only the visible light range. A standard CCD imager that is found in your smartphone of and video device anymore, sees infrared light better than visible light (normally, they filter the infrared out) and that is the range that does the trick for the most accurate versions of this. I can even spot infrared eliminators to know they are doing it in some cases.
If you might have noticed, when you go to the BMV now, they do not require you to remove your eyeglasses. This is a highly accurate system now and glasses will not throw it off, but a ballcap might. Many reasons for that.
Facebook and some others have even taken this a few steps more. They can read your emotions from your facial expressions in real time. Originally the research was for the commercial market where you might be captured viewing a product in a store and get a recorded reaction from your experience of perhaps a price tag that is to high etc.
But this can be carried way beyond that in the real world.
The skinny is you should be skeptical of the potential uses since at this point, you may not be able to fathom what they might be.
But you would be surprised to know just how much it is being used right now.
It does not have to track you in real time. just record events for later determination.
But who should be able to access that data and what if it is hacked. It certainly will be sold.
Many more questions than answers and you should have the answers before you realize the questions. I am not totally against it but it must have a set of expandable defined rules or I am totally against it.
Think of it's use in politics... did your mayor visit a flop house or did you visit the NRA or party headquarters ?
It may seem like harmless info now but that's because nobody has had it to create a use for it yet.
Someone is going to make money, Even for the bribery factor.