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Re: [privacy] "Report warns of people-tagging madness"


From: rms () computerbytesman com
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:50:46 -0500 (EST)

Or if someone screws and misinterprets the data:

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/safewaycard.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5053007/

http://www.truthinjustice.org/PGfalse-confessions.htm

Richard


On 10/30/06, rms () computerbytesman com <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
I'm already watched all the time because I carry a cellphone, use credit
cards and surf the Web.  My car gets tracked too because it has a couple
of RFID transponders.  The sureveillance cameras watch me all the time
also, but typically no one knows who I am just by my photo.  I don't
have
an embedded RFID chip yet, but my car keys and building lobby door key
fob
do.  Excluding video, photo images, email messages, and server log
entries, I bet I generate 100K bytes of new data in databases everyday.

Hmm, should I be worried about all this tracking?'

Only if you want to disappear or do something illegal.


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