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Both arguments are valid though imo.

If you take a photo in town square and I'm in the background no worries, that's fine. If you follow me around taking photos of me in town square then that's harassment - not fine.

If your Nest doorbell watches me walk past your house that's also fine. However if your entire street has Nest then has Amazon identified me as having walked down your entire street? If so, that should also be harassment.

The issue isn't that the photo or video was taken, it's the correlation that happens after the fact.




I mostly agree, but disagree with the "taking a photo of me on the pavement" part. It's actually illegal in Sweden. We have some of the strictest camera regulations I know of, and I'm very pleased with that.

I'm NOT a fan of Teslas sentry mode.


> disagree with the "taking a photo of me on the pavement" part. It's actually illegal in Sweden.

It is? Since how long; when was that law changed?


Fixed installations has been regulated since forever.


But "taking a photo of me on the pavement" doesn't sound like "fixed installations"; it sounds like me as a tourist not being allowed to take a snapshot of a picturesque street just because you happen to be standing on the pavement.


I think I wasn't clear enough that I was referring to the nest camera the parent was talking about.


Ah, yeah, good. Because I've taken quite a few snapshots when I've been out and about, always under the impression that what I was doing was perfectly legal. :-)


My understanding was that correlation after the fact with ai is what also allows you to obfuscate identifiers so its technically anonymized until "extracted and inspected". Completely unrelated- you might dig this satellite tracker visualization :) https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization




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