It's not dead; NSA have simply taken over the responsibility
Lifelogging is dead for now
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Re: Lifelogging is dead for now
#22One great thing about the current state of technology is you'll have a picture of your kid virtually every week of their life.
When I was a kid, the camera would get lugged out for occasions like birthdays.
Now I have more pictures of my kids than days in their lives.
I think it's great. There's even metadata to tell you where and when the pic was taken.
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#23I absolutely would like to record everything but I'm not prepared for all that data to live in the cloud and belong to some untrustworthy tech giant.
To the best of my knowledge this is the holdup. We need an encrypted cloud. One we know only we have the keys to. There will be no data mining beyond users mining themselves, when it comes to privacy, with the line drawn by the user, not the provider.
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#24Hard drives are so cheap why not DIY? The article implies TB of data but I find that dubious.
Every 30s would amount to 2880 times * x Mbyte per day. Which would mean 2 Gbyte per day. If you have a movie at 12 FPS you could get it down to 12 Gbyte per day.
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#25There's a life log built into Google Maps. It's called Timeline and it's pretty neat. It annotates your raw location history with the names of places you've been and the photos you took while you were there. It's a nice benefit for those of us who don't mind letting Google store our location history. https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
Yeah, I shut that trash off years ago. I love keeping records of my own. I don't love the government having a permanent record of everywhere I've ever been over the last ten years.
Re: Lifelogging is dead for now
#26There's a life log built into Google Maps. It's called Timeline and it's pretty neat. It annotates your raw location history with the names of places you've been and the photos you took while you were there. It's a nice benefit for those of us who don't mind letting Google store our location history. https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
Yeah, I shut that trash off years ago. I love keeping records of my own. I don't love the government having a permanent record of everywhere I've ever been over the last ten years.
Won't they have your phone mast history as a good second go ?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I shut that trash off years ago. I love keeping records of my own. I don't love the government having a permanent record of everywhere I've ever been over the last ten years.
Won't they have your phone mast history as a good second go ?
Cell phone location history won't tell you nearly as much. They can generally say which town I'm in, what part of town even. But I could at any point be in hundreds of different buildings at any point from the history of what towers I'm connected to.
Meanwhile, Google location history pinpoints you to an exact address give or take every five minutes.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Won't they have your phone mast history as a good second go ?
Cell phone location history won't tell you nearly as much. They can generally say which town I'm in, what part of town even. But I could at any point be in hundreds of different buildings at any point from the history of what towers I'm connected to. Meanwhile, Google location history pinpoints you to an exact address give or take every five minutes.
They'll have much better accuracy than you think.
You're connected to one at a time but frequently checking for more appropriate towers in case of signal outages.
Using this they could triangulate you quite precisely.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cell phone location history won't tell you nearly as much. They can generally say which town I'm in, what part of town even. But I could at any point be in hundreds of different buildings at any point from the history of what towers I'm connected to. Meanwhile, Google location history pinpoints you to an exact address give or take every five minutes.
They'll have much better accuracy than you think. You're connected to one at a time but frequently checking for more appropriate towers in case of signal outages. Using this they could triangulate you quite precisely.
The question there is your use of "could". Is this something they can do if they want to know about you specifically, or something they're already doing (and storing) for all users?
The ability to decide to track down one person right now for criminal justice purposes is not nearly as concerning as just being able to request anyone's precise location history going back a decade.
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#30I always wondered what would happen to violent crime if everyone logged what happens? (If there is no obvious camera, it would be enough if 10-15% logged, for the risk to increase.) A button sends the last minute of everything that happened to the police, along with GPS coordinates (preferably with a face recognition service)? If your voice is needed to turn off logging, it will be obvious what happened, when knock o…
Selective enforcement goes through the ceiling, as there's suddenly far more "crime" than anyone knows what to do with.
Yes, but add face recognition and it will be easy court cases...
I see new services for the future:
+ Upload services that gets video checksums every second (and maybe a picture every 30 seconds), so you can prove that this video was not tampered with.
+ Jamming equipment, so criminals can stop information from leaving the victim (then destroy the logging hardware.)
+ Cheap, fast flying drones that can leave a person being robbed, to send video/audio/alarm to the police outside the previously mentioned jamming radius.