We’re Watching You

Nothing on the internet is private. People wrestle with the question of how to protect their personal information on the web. There has been advancements in personalizing your security settings for whatever social network you belong to but there are still ways for people to find pictures, comments, and information you don’t want to share. Which brings me to the chapter I read for this blog post titled Ubiquitous Surveillance – Somebody is Watching You “Video Surveillance” chapter.  This section collected the majority of my interest because it showed me the alarming technological advancements being made in video surveillance.  Much like Facebook and other websites data mine for your personal information to product place things that you “should” like, video surveillance is starting to make headway in determining personal info based off of watching your actions. For example, Benabbas says, “It consists of extracting usual or repetitive patterns of motion, and this information is used in many applications such as marketing and surveillance. The extracted patterns are used to estimate consumer demographics in public spaces or to analyze traffic trends in road traffic scenes,”.  The thought of privacy now becomes more distant with the overloading of technological advancements hindering peoples attempts of protecting their personal info.  I personally don’t like being under the watchful eye of “the man” and this chapter honestly put some fear in me.  With surveillance cameras becoming more elaborate, I feel that in the future there will be too much control, and too much surveillance.  Artikis states, “More precisely, we employ EC to express the temporal constraints on a set of short term behaviours that, if satisfied, lead to the recognition of a long-term behaviour.”  More sophisticated surveillance technology means an uhappy Andrew, and nobody wants an unhappy Andrew.

 

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