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Originally Posted by Fluribus
The demo I saw had a portion with the lights off to show off the infrared capabilities.
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Plus identify registered users, track users even when they are changing position, registering facial expressions, inferring the level of physical activity (including forces and heart activity, some of which I think they said was due to observations outside of the visible spectrum).
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All of the features are supposed to be able to be toggled off, which makes the requirement seem weird.
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Agreed.
Give it to the hackers. Granted, I'm referring to the other type of hackers: the type who will figure the contraption out and come up with innovative uses for it. Pervert it to the good, rather than the seriously misguided or malicious.
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PRISM. Changeable privacy policies. I'd feel safer without it.
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I agree with the feel safer bit, but I very much doubt that it will be used for government spying. At least not in the sense of PRISM. (It probably isn't practical for indiscriminant spying. Targeted spying, maybe.) However, I can see businesses being interested in the data acquired from this. Everyone from media creators to advertisers could find value in the data even if it were "anonymized".
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I unplug my microphone from the PC when it's not in use and people think I'm paranoid. I disagree. I will admit to running off the rails on a crazy train. Oh well. No more tears.
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I've seen people who would never be labelled as paranoid placing tape over the camera of their phone or computer. You don't have to be paranoid to see this stuff as creepy.