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> Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials Little Brother surveillance. It would be nice not to be surveilled at all, but since that's not an option the answer to "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is us.
Who watches the watchmen? The watched.
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Why not just have the device occasionally send sha256 sums of chunks to a third party service, like Twitter tweets, where it's clear you can't forge the date of the message? If you need to produce some chunks, the matching hashes provide an independent time stamp showing you didn't just produce the content at any time. This sort of trick is already commonly done to demonstrate prior knowledge of something at a later…
Great idea, but are courts tech savvy enough to accept this already? Even with a tech expert to explain it, I worry the opposition would just get their own expert and make a whole mess of it, confusing both the judge and jury enough to cast doubt. Perhaps I have a very wrong view on how both such evidence is presented and accepted though.
If you want a more thorough view of the rules in the US (which states deviate from to some extent), you might like to browse https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre
It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able to say "Alexa, where did I leave my glasses?", "Hey Google, where did I put my box of spare fuses?".
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I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.
The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer. Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/16/police-pr-video-machi...
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I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, cameras all over the house hooked up to ML algorithms that help you audit and tweak your behavior towards some specified goal. When I used to play video games ultra competitively, I would analyze recordings of my gameplay to try and get better, and it worked wonders.
I've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and playing it back to identify why I went with that path and try to course-correct the next time around.
Edit: Another comment has informed me of rewind.ai, which does this on Mac, interesting!
Got a similar PoC that uses Tasker to record sound on my phone, Whisper to convert it to text, and neatly organizes everything into Obsidian.md. The continuous recording kills the battery life on my phone so it's only usable if you don't mind going around with a powerbank. Would be great if a manufacturer would put in a separate low-energy chip with a good ADC.
P.S. "Active functions" with custom home automation is easy as pie with joaoapps's suite. I use BusyBox to SSH into a Pi with a Tellstick Duo. And some RFID tags for the system to know where I am (e.g. bedtime routine gets triggered when I place my phone on the bedside table). But yeah...traffic goes thru Google.
All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…
Alexa AI doesn't work for you, it's a hired gun in your house.
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The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer. Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?
I think that’s right, it’s a double edged sword. You would have to ask if you’re more likely to be wrongly accused or to be caught doing something wrong by your own recordings. This guy has been recording himself publicly since 2002 after ending up on a no fly list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_M._Elahi I think that’s taking it too far and would rather encrypt than publish it publicly, but doing it publicly…
> A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot.
> How did they know that’s where the shooting happened? Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place.
(The defense argued ShotSpotter makes up data and hides behind opaque AI they refuse to rigorously test. Instead of responding, the prosecution dropped the case.)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh...
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> Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials Little Brother surveillance. It would be nice not to be surveilled at all, but since that's not an option the answer to "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is us.
In times past, it was obvious that it wasn't an option to avoid pervasive violence (by orders of magnitude compared to today). It was, though.
Or a class system where lords and kings have more right than you do, although we are kinda bringing that back.