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comment by speeding_snail
speeding_snail  ·  4528 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cisco locks users out of their routers, requires invasive cloud service
It was for footage shot by your own security cameras, or maybe even for normal videos. It was an Taiwan based company if memory serves well. But the catch was that you get storage for free on your own footage. So you determine what happens with it, just like with uploading photos to facebook.

    Why not just walk around the city with a video camera, and sell the people on the street?: "Hey look, Tom Smith, who lives at 555 Second St., and makes $95k is on East 39 street every afternoon."

Isn't that what the paparazzi are doing? Granted, with already famous people, but still. I dread the moment that someone would somehow get acces to CCTV systems. That would be the end of real life privacy in for example London.





mk  ·  4528 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Hey, we can all be famous! :/
speeding_snail  ·  4528 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Sure we can, but the question is, would you like to be famous? All those weirdos running after you, snapping pictures, asking for comments and maybe remember more about what you did last night than you do. And all of that gets into gossip magazines. I most certainly wouldn't like that, nor do I like having my pictures uploaded to someone who wants to analyze them so they can select the right creams to sell to me :P