All dater is valuable and can be sold. CCTV could be hacked or even just sold on by an unscrupulous individual, to anyone who has your photo and might be interested in knowing what you are up to.
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Facial recognition has been implemented in China already.
Machine scans your face when boarding plane or train
And you can pay with your face
It's the future. The essence of internet and maybe the future is access and freedom of information
Privacy is probably a thing in the past already. Look at Facebook, your smart phone and smart watch
A friend at ANU is working on such project. Computers now can recognize object. Yes like a human.
With the recent technology improvement, we can store massive data and analyses them without human intervention.
Computers can recognize persona and interlink CCTV footage. But that is retrospective investigation. Maybe a live monitoring is a possibility in the future.
For people fearing their privacy, look have you recently checked your emails? Have you heard about targeted advertisement?
Basically massive purchase data in the past is obtained and analyses using Bayesian statistics and predictions of purchase can then be made based on some traits (variables in the equations.
Such predictions are expressed in the form of targeted ads to you. If the consumer received the ad and make a purchase via the target ads, it sends back a positive prediction signal to increase the success rate in the future (so to speak.
I sometimes received such email. I was thinking about buying a 3/4 socket set and was sent an such promotion email by Amazon. They must have guessed it from my YouTube/Google search data.
Trust me they know who we are, what we doing and what we want already
Professor Jordan Lou viere Does such work for Amazon etc..And I learn from him
Yes I have and I am yet to see it work.
On ebay, I usually get ads for products I have already bought. A bit useless, really.
Closing the gate after the horse has bolted.
And I cannot explain this one:
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Oh, and on the work computer, the targeted advertising thought I was looking for Russian brides.
Really? No idea why anyone would like to see a sweaty me on a bike, out running or even driving around in my Disco 99.9% of the time. If they do they are a seriously ill individual. Only person or people who want to know what I am up to know what I am up to.
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Like Micks thoughts on target advertising, it only ever gets to me well after the horse has bolted. [biggrin]
I have CCTV at work. It is really boring trying to find the bits police want post nefarious activities at shops or business near me. Not for sale and very secure.