Borders UK and privacy

[Duncan Frissell]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:

> David Brin's book "The Transparent Society" suggests that you
> might as well get used to it.  Technological change driven by
> the Moore's Law effects in computing power are making
> video cameras and computer image processing get cheaper rapidly,
> so the marginal benefit of using them doesn't have to be very high
> to outweigh the marginal cost.  The real issues are still getting data,

On the other hand, the technology of disguise and the public taste for
radical body modification and active clothing all suggest that many of us
will soon be denying a useful image to the opposition.  Then we won't have
to worry until genetic sniffers become popular.

Genetic sniffers, however can probably be defeated by devices that give
off clouds of genetically random human biological material.

Offense and defense back and forth forever.

DCF
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