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 coll
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> There has been a lot of talk on the list recently about the privacy
> issues associated with various toll and fare collecting systems, but
For folks that haven't seen it, next month's Scientific American is
about "The Future of Privacy":
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
It is hard to argue with Perry's point that privacy in public is an
endangered species at best. Suggesting that one confine one's illegal
actions to the virtual world is not a particularly appealing response.
Robin Hanson considered the problem in this article from back in the
1990s, a response to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Unfortunately, I don't see anything technological that people can reasonably
>>do here to provide more privacy,
>
> Painting the camera lenses with laser pointers is quite effective, at least as
> a sho
"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Unfortunately, I don't see anything technological that people can reasonably
>do here to provide more privacy,
Painting the camera lenses with laser pointers is quite effective, at least as
a short-term civil-disobedience measure. Since there's no
There has been a lot of talk on the list recently about the privacy
issues associated with various toll and fare collecting systems, but
others have been pointing out, correctly I think, that this matters
less and less because of other technological developments.
New York City recently announced
