SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
I’m not trying to argue that it’s right. More just trying to point out the fundamental flaw in getting pissed at something that’s already a problem.
Just getting upset at this one thing because it’s new and having your attention drawn to it is pointless. Trying to stop it is even more pointless. It also shows that the person getting upset doesn’t actually understand the real problem here and is functionally just falling for the fear mongering of the headline in a sense.
You need to actually go after the underlying problem that even allows this to happen in the first place. And yeah my example was far more simplistic compared to digital logging. But it was ment to be a quick simple example.
I just get tired of people not paying attention to the problems around them till some new thing pops up that gets head lines. If that makes sense?
I don’t find the argument that everyone should have a perfect expectation of privacy in public locations. It just doesn’t make logistical sense. Shared spaces just fundamentally are going to require everyone to agree to some level of privacy loss for the sake of usability of the space.
But the right to be anonymous in public should also be a thing. So while someone expecting to not be recorded and documented is a bit silly. That documentation and recording should be of the sort that’s not able to profile and harass.
For example, if you get caught up in a photo or recording someone making at a park. Your sharing the space and that’s just the compromise. But someone taking a picture of every single person for the singular purpose of tracking every person that goes though is fucked up.
Kinda just a this is why we can’t have nice things sorta problem. Cause I can also see the need to have some level of monitoring for security purposes. But anything more then a basic cctv setup always feels extremely over kill.
A dumb rolling recording. Nothing more or less always seemed like the perfect middle ground. Its enough to be useful and still respectful enough of the identity of the avg person.
But give people an inch and they take a mile and those basic dumb recordings become over the top bullshit quickly.
I could bitch about a lot of this forever, but text is kind of a crappy place to have nuanced discussions.