www/philosophy surveillance-vs-democracy.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

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
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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>
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