USPS Service Kiosks Taking Pictures of Customers

[Eugen Leitl]

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.
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