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12 comments to "Billboards With Cameras Bring Us One Step Closer to ‘Minority Report’"
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Ali S.
May 31st, 2008 at
11:03 am
I wouldn’t mind playing around with this tech but I think it could easily be abused by authorities who wouldn’t mind have a large scale tool to gather information on folks on the street. However, if it could be used to capture criminals who pass by with a giant blaring “WANTED” sign popping up I wouldn’t mind.
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Tony LaRocca
May 31st, 2008 at
11:09 am
If I could add just one thing to the constitution, it would be THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY,
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Jerub-Baal
May 31st, 2008 at
11:22 am
Obviously, the answer is to wear a sandwich board saying “WWW.NEATORAMA.COM” and stand in front of every billboard you see for 30 seconds…
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sparge
May 31st, 2008 at
12:18 pm
How is this any more a breach of privacy than security cameras in stores?
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Tifu
May 31st, 2008 at
1:10 pm
But… billboards are always on the side of the road, with short messages that can easily be read while driving by - their target audience is people in cars, not pedestrians walking by, surely. That doesn’t make any sense at all?
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DOJ
May 31st, 2008 at
5:14 pm
Targeted ads work pretty well. I buy dozens of retro bowling shirts each week.
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Sue Dunham
June 1st, 2008 at
8:05 am
I knew this item would invoke “the right to privacy”.
Basically if you are out in public, you are not in private. You are discrete about giving your private parts that REALLY satisfying scratch because you know someone may be watching. -
black cloth draped eye
June 1st, 2008 at
8:47 am
Next are the cameras in every home (aside from your cell phone which is a roving bug and may be easily tapped at any time, google if you don’t believe me for information which is published, imagine all that’s not published) and the average person who says to the one who refuses them, “We already have them everywhere outside, so why not? Are you crazy?” And they’ll medicate and lock up those who refuse them. Honestly, they don’t need them with all of the cell phones around. And if you don’t have a cell phone and need to be watched then there are many other covert ways, including mysterious break ins and sneak n peaks, among others.
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dan
June 1st, 2008 at
10:25 am
i never saw the movie minority report, but i read the story and there arent cameras everywhere, just 3 mutants who can predict the future.
and about the cameras, they are already everywhere, we just dont notice them -
Matt
June 1st, 2008 at
11:11 am
I often stop and read billboards, then grimace, shake my head and walk on in disgust. Will that be picked up?
dan: there was a sequence in Minority Report where the hero was escaping down a street, trying to be anonymous, and all the billboards were recognizing him and calling his name out, targeting him with ads.
True, while in public you are not in private, but it should be reasonable to expect not to be recorded in everything you do.
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DOJ
June 1st, 2008 at
8:48 pm
@dan - in minority report (the movie at least) the billboards used a camera to read your iris, then gave personalized ads (spoiler:this is the reason he got the transplant)
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dan
June 1st, 2008 at
10:48 pm
@doj yeah in the story there is nothing of that sort that goes on, i guess they did it to beef up the big brother feel in the movie
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