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From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:55:47 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 15/01/05 12:55:47
Modified files:
philosophy : surveillance-vs-democracy.html
Log message:
Add footnote about pointing a camera at someone else's private space.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.27&r2=1.28
Patches:
Index: surveillance-vs-democracy.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.27
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -b -r1.27 -r1.28
--- surveillance-vs-democracy.html 16 Dec 2014 15:24:38 -0000 1.27
+++ surveillance-vs-democracy.html 5 Jan 2015 12:55:46 -0000 1.28
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
<p>One way to make monitoring safe for privacy is
to <a name="dispersal">keep the data dispersed and inconvenient to
-access</a>. Old-fashioned security cameras were no threat to privacy.
+access</a>. Old-fashioned security cameras were no threat to privacy(<a
href="#privatespace">*</a>).
The recording was stored on the premises, and kept for a few weeks at
most. Because of the inconvenience of accessing these recordings, it
was never done massively; they were accessed only in the places where
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@
systematic accumulation of such data on the Internet must be
limited.</p>
+<p><a name="privatespace"><b>*</a></a>I assume here that the security
+camera points at the inside of a store, or at the street. Any camera
+pointed at someone's private space by someone else violates privacy,
+but that is another issue.</p>
+
<h3 id="digitalcash">Remedy for Internet Commerce Surveillance</h3>
<p>Most data collection comes from people's own digital activities.
@@ -500,7 +505,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/12/16 15:24:38 $
+$Date: 2015/01/05 12:55:46 $
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</p>
</div>