[funsec] Chicago: Daley Wants Security Cameras at Bars

[Fergie]

Forget that -- people are just giving most of it away these
days. :-/

Thanks to Bruce Schneier for pointing out this fine research
paper:

Soft Surveillance: The Growth of Mandatory Volunteerism in Collecting Personal Information—"Hey Buddy Can You Spare a DNA?"

Author: G.T. Marx

 http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/softsurveillance.html

"Never underestimate the willingness of the American public to tell you about itself."
          —Direct Marketing Executive 

- ferg
-- Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> This is just what we should expect when the "Girls Gone Wild"
> producers start donating heavily to republicans

The logical next step, from this morning's CryptoGram:

One problem with cameras is that you can't trust the watchers not to 
misuse them.  This is a story of two CCTV camera operators who have 
been jailed for spying on a naked woman in her own home.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4609746.stm>
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/13/cctv_men_jailed/>


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