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[QUOTE=squids_eye;34579605]I think people probably would. They almost definately would if it was in Europe atleast.
You didn't acknowledge my second point though. It would take an incredibly powerful computer to track and process the locations of so many people, It would make more sense just to track the people who are already in the police database as known criminals or with criminal records.[/QUOTE]
Europe has a much more stringent privacy expectation than in the US. Plenty of people here seem to think "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a perfectly good way to approach privacy. Even then, the UK already has monitoring in some cities, albeit without the as-yet impractical face tracking.
Computers are constantly getting more powerful. There don't appear to be any limits we'll hit within 10 years, so that's at least ~100x more power we should achieve. The recognition of faces can be distributed to individual monitoring centers, and the tracking can just use database solutions that already work well for huge quantities of data. It will become possible.
At first, yes, it will likely only be used for criminals, but these laws have a tendency to keep getting expanded if there aren't other, higher laws preventing their use. We have no such explicit protections in the US. Even wiretapping laws, which are pretty blatantly against the constitution, are in place.
[QUOTE=Thy Reaper;34579738]Europe has a much more stringent privacy expectation than in the US. Plenty of people here seem to think "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a perfectly good way to approach privacy. Even then, the UK already has monitoring in some cities, albeit without the as-yet impractical face tracking.
Computers are constantly getting more powerful. There don't appear to be any limits we'll hit within 10 years, so that's at least ~100x more power we should achieve. The recognition of faces can be distributed to individual monitoring centers, and the tracking can just use database solutions that already work well for huge quantities of data. It will become possible.
At first, yes, it will likely only be used for criminals, but these laws have a tendency to keep getting expanded if there aren't other, higher laws preventing their use. We have no such explicit protections in the US. Even wiretapping laws, which are pretty blatantly against the constitution, are in place.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if you are right about Europe having more stringent privacy expectations. I hear American's complaining about it more and the UK is already covered in CCTV but no one really cares all that much.
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