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Re: privacy in public places
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Sat Aug 30 10:37:03 2008
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:42:22 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <8763plytzf.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote, [on 8/28/2008 10:09 PM]:
> Given this, I think the time for focusing on the privacy implications
> of payment transponders and fare cars is over. Not carrying a cell
> phone will not help you avoid tracking when your environment is
> saturated with cameras. Digital cash toll collection systems will not
> avoid records being kept of your car's movements when cameras are
> reading and recording license plates anyway.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't see anything technological that people can
> reasonably do here to provide more privacy, at least short of everyone
> going everywhere on foot while wearing a burqa and periodically
> attempting to confuse the cameras. The solutions, if any exist at all,
> appear to be non-technical.
Isn't this essentially what David Brin has been saying for several years
now? [1] [2]
Udhay
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
[2] http://www.davidbrin.com/privacyarticles.html
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