Nobody wants that, but you better get used to it. The world we live in is post-privacy.
I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Google Glass, the dozens of CCTV cameras you encounter daily, and Steve Mann's face. It will hardly be any more time before consumers are able to see through walls.
The future is not set in stone. You cannot predict the future. You cannot even tell what happens in the next 5 minutes.
Privacy is a significant concern for many. Not just individuals, but organizations work to ensure privacy is respected, and more (e.g. through policy). Active research occurs, and technology is developed specifically to create privacy-respecting systems and augment the ones that don't already do so.
We're not talking about the future, so prediction is unnecessary. But to your point: in my experience as an experienced and security-inclined engineer, this is an arms race where privacy doesn't win.
You are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. It is not an engineering problem first.
And as a person who understands more about the problem, it is in fact your obligation to stand up and explain this to a fellow man, not just stand hands down in defeat.
The future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly it is made up by laws and the laws are made, at least in democracy by elected representatives.
The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be.
Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great.
People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars.
We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.
Exactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.
I was with you until "society is made up by contracts", and you lost me entirely with laws. Most of society exists outside the ambit of either law or contract.
Indeed, as society we can make certain behaviour unlawful regardless of technical possibilities. We can imprison and isolate people from the society who act against such laws. We just have to make our minds clear what these laws should be.
My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.
I can still get great facial recognition data out of LIDAR. In fact I can get just as much data from you with LIDAR as I can an image, because they are precision depth by default. For example I can "bounce" my LIDAR into your bag and see what's inside that might not be visible otherwise.
There are a lot of issues with microLIDAR - notwithstanding that it's at least 5 years from commercialization.
1. They are only now being shown in R&D to be possible to make small enough for consumer devices. How do produce at wide scale is unknown and how they would be implemented in a stack is unknown.
2. It's unclear if the market is there for applications that need LIDAR over more proven IR or cheaper CV techniques.
3. FCC requirements are a pain for active sensors like LIDAR or Ultrasonics on consumer devices
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I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Google Glass, the dozens of CCTV cameras you encounter daily, and Steve Mann's face. It will hardly be any more time before consumers are able to see through walls.
Privacy is a significant concern for many. Not just individuals, but organizations work to ensure privacy is respected, and more (e.g. through policy). Active research occurs, and technology is developed specifically to create privacy-respecting systems and augment the ones that don't already do so.
And as a person who understands more about the problem, it is in fact your obligation to stand up and explain this to a fellow man, not just stand hands down in defeat.
Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great.
People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars.
We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.
I try to explain it always if I have change. Our houses should not leak information. This is very dangerous for the society as a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
My only concern is that non state level organized actors can get large advantage over the society using these laws.
There are a lot of issues with microLIDAR - notwithstanding that it's at least 5 years from commercialization.
Why is it 5 years from commercialization?
1. They are only now being shown in R&D to be possible to make small enough for consumer devices. How do produce at wide scale is unknown and how they would be implemented in a stack is unknown.
2. It's unclear if the market is there for applications that need LIDAR over more proven IR or cheaper CV techniques.
3. FCC requirements are a pain for active sensors like LIDAR or Ultrasonics on consumer devices