Comments on: The future of privacy talk at ORG http://withoutfire.com/2009/12/the-future-of-privacy-talk-at-org/ helping you look after your data Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:18:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: XC http://withoutfire.com/2009/12/the-future-of-privacy-talk-at-org/comment-page-1/#comment-108 XC Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:13:32 +0000 http://withoutfire.com/?p=252#comment-108 Some thoughts.... Life recorders will be the end of the police state as we know it. Right now it is your word against the cop's. If there are 57 view points of the behavior and the incident then suddenly there is a neutral third party in the conversation. The reason cops (here, in the US) like to carry recorders in their cars is that it increases conviction rates and reduces lawsuits. But that is a pretty narrow set of police officers. Imagine how much more effective the policing would be at a trade protest, for example, if there were 57 recordings of a dirty hippie (but I repeat myself) throwing poo at the officer before he clocks him one. It also occurs to me that it might kill the sex trade. :-) Finally, can we not have everything European over here? I work in a mega-corp (tm) and we struggle with the crazy patchwork of over-restrictive data privacy laws every day. Frankly, from what I can tell, our customers in the US aren't any more bothered than the ones we have in Germany. -XC Some thoughts….

Life recorders will be the end of the police state as we know it. Right now it is your word against the cop’s. If there are 57 view points of the behavior and the incident then suddenly there is a neutral third party in the conversation. The reason cops (here, in the US) like to carry recorders in their cars is that it increases conviction rates and reduces lawsuits. But that is a pretty narrow set of police officers. Imagine how much more effective the policing would be at a trade protest, for example, if there were 57 recordings of a dirty hippie (but I repeat myself) throwing poo at the officer before he clocks him one.

It also occurs to me that it might kill the sex trade. :-)

Finally, can we not have everything European over here? I work in a mega-corp ™ and we struggle with the crazy patchwork of over-restrictive data privacy laws every day. Frankly, from what I can tell, our customers in the US aren’t any more bothered than the ones we have in Germany.

-XC

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