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Not entirely helpful, if the video has already been scanned, face rec employed, groupings of people recorded (eg, who you hang out with), and perhaps phone identifiers.

The recordings may be gone, but is all metadata? And when they answer yes, does that also mean "partners" too?

Anyhow, public transport will always be less private than a car, just due to fewer people traveling with you. That's not the point though.

The point is, car companies spying on you. And they all do it too. Ford does it. It needs to be stopped.



Yes, absolutely. All these other potential invasions of privacy.

But I'd like to think the items on your list become more visible - and easier to combat - if recordings are time-limited. Can activists conceivably use FOIA requests to identify ALL dataflows out of surveillance systems in use in public commons ?


Maybe dataflows out, but I've never heard of a private company (receiving them to provide a service to a government) being part of a FOIA?

Maybe that's just in my jurisdiction.




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