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Date Posted: 09:36:27 06/17/03 Tue
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net / 68.81.153.209
Subject: An interesting essay on a spreading technology. How will it affect ur lives, if at all?

START essay

Phonecam Nation
Everyone's posting instant photos on the Web. Get ready for your close-up.
By Xeni Jardin

To read this essay, go to http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/start.html?pg=2

After you have read it, consider the ramifications to personal privacy. I know the argument that if you are on a public street you should have no expectation of privacy, but is that really true? It is one thing to be transiently seen by the public, yet another to have your picture snapped and published so that anyone in the world can see it.

No easy answers here. Just tell us how nervous this makes you and if you expect to have to punch out some people. Maybe it's a bad hair day or something. You don't have to be doing anything wrong to be annoyed by this. The potential for harrassment is great. Should we be concerned? Only time will tell.

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[> I've heard about this, and of some fairly flagrant abuses of taste -- people take their little cameras into locker rooms and other private-public locations and whoever's in there could find they're a new porn star on the internet. Whatever happened to asking permission to take someone's picture? Especially for publication? Common courtesy is a lost art, as is common sense. I can't think of a fitting penalty yet, but I am fully in favor of things like castrating rapists and death penalty for murderers, so something equally apt would do for amateur paparazzi. Ideas, anyone? -- Spock, 14:39:31 06/18/03 Wed (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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[> It's like that recent movie with Tom Cruise in it. Soon everywhere you go computers will track you by doing a retinal scan. You won't be able to go anywhere or do anything without a record. Sorf of like Easy Pass for life. -- Surf, 18:55:57 06/18/03 Wed (pool-141-151-2-108.phil.east.verizon.net/141.151.2.108)

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[> [> Have you got a credit check done lately? All your credit history and personal info is now on line.. -- Chez, 12:17:12 06/21/03 Sat (02-181.002.popsite.net/64.24.16.181)

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