Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/16/1418246 Posted by: michael, on 2004-12-16 15:11:00 from the say-cheese dept. [1]NW writes "According to [2]FOIA documents obtained by EPIC new Postal Service self-service postage machines take portrait-style photographs of customers and retain them for 30 days." IBM is the [3]contractor behind the kiosks. Note that the kiosk is supposed to not complete the transaction if it determines the photograph has been compromised, so simply covering the camera is unlikely to work. As the cost of cameras and digital storage approaches zero, is it inevitable that every machine you interact with will take your photograph and store it? [4]Click Here References 1. http://www.shaftek.org/blog/ 2. http://www.epic.org/privacy/postal/ 3. http://www-1.ibm.com/kiosk/government.html 4. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5717&alloc_id=12468&site_id=1&request_id=5057586&o p=click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]