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- Video Surveillance
- Ubiquitous Networks (Sensors)
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| Benefits to Society | Privacy Concerns Voiced |
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- Video Surveillance
- Crime detection
- Monitoring traffic flow and pedestrian congestion in public spaces; detecting accidents on highways; compiling consumer demographics in shopping malls and amusement parks; logging routine maintenance tasks at nuclear facilities; and, counting endangered species.
- Ubiquitous Networks
- Mobile communication using laptops.
- Can sense relevant environmental characteristics such as physical position or network conditions
- May impact teaching and learning.
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- Capturing intimacy and personal communications
- Tracking unidentified people, automobiles without consent
- Capturing unidentified people, who are exhibiting no suspicious behavior, but who may be subsequently identified
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| Solution | Description |
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| Video abstraction |
- Video Footprinter -- people replaced with the trails they leave behind
- Video Blobber – faces cryptographically covered in video
- Video Counting and Reporting Behaviors
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| Privacy Impact | |
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- A. Video, wiretapping and surveillance
- B. Civil liberties, illegal search
- D. Employment, workplace privacy
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