Police, it seems, feel they have the right to absolute stealth — even when they’re out in broad daylight — and that the citizens who pay their salaries have no right to make note of where they are. This is ironic, points out Electronic Freedom Foundation spokesman Steve Maass, because the police are usually the first to say that anything that happens out in public is fair game for surveillance. They use this argument when justifying the widespread practice of mass license plate scanning, and when justifying the use of facial recognition technology to identify us in a crowd. But in the case of Waze it’s the police who are being identified in public, and they’re crying foul. venturebeat/2015/01/26/police-cant-have-it-both-waze-on-expectation-of-privacy-in-public/
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:48:20 +0000
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