Respectful Cameras

I think this is a good idea. While this privacy technology still seems to still be in its infant stages, once it is refined and reduced (in size), it could prove to be very valuable. It's about time some of us start doing something about this, as public video surveillance is only increasing as each day passes.

great idea :D i will definitely want a hat with a marker on it

I'm skeptical. Just like the "private parts" blocker with Backscatter X-ray, how do we know its being used??
Plus, everyone wearing some kind of marker will lead to a bunch of Internet "mark of the beast/end of the world" stuff... and I can't take much more of that. I better idea would be. turn off the cameras.

love baldessari, this pod had me enthralled from beginning to end. still not sure how i feel about all the surveillance, but i really don't feel like there really is any privacy in public anyways.

Interesting technology

The world is at an uproar..security cameras can only do so much. It only deters a little bit when it comes to petty crime but on a terror attack as u can see be the attacks on the US it really didn't matter. It's just to police the public a litle more. That hat will also just make u look crazy if your not in a construction zone.

Next thing is going to be the microchip, good bye privicy and freedom wellcome the new world order.
There is a video clip of George Bush Senior when he said "it is a great idea a new world order" check it in youtube.

It is george orwell nightmare coming to live .

yeah thats something that will end up back firing!!!!
one say someone will be misidentified and then theirs lawyers and next the U.S governments on board. and let me say things go far south when their involved.

Ill by two, bob franks!

uhmm let me think for a min, if one of these catches a crime, take a typical purse snatcher, and it blots out their faces, doesn't that kill the idea of it being there in the first place? to identify culprits?

its a cool idea but would people really wear a computer chip that would track them? doesn't that defeat the purpose

People wearing a marker? human beings being marked?
Oh shit another sign of the apocalypse...

Freedom is essentially inversely proportional to how secure you are.

For me, I'll take true freedom.

I don't get it. If you can't even identify a petty thief then why have the camera there in the first place?

Just imagine if we had police watching the streets instead of cameras....

I don't think I've ever had someone post a picture of me online without my knowledge, and even if they did I really wouldn't care much. Though I don't like the idea of constantly being watched, I'm not worried enough about it to spend a bunch of money on a hat to obscure my face from cameras.

Could be useful in some places, though. Especially for celebrities.

This is a great idea, and very artistic as well :)

smile you are candid camera!

At this point I dont think big brother can get any bigger until looking at changing it's name.

How am I supposed to steal stuff now?

It's like NOBODY HAS READ 1984!

WTF?

I don't like the public cameras, period. I also don't see the point of blotting out the faces...why put the cameras out in public places in the first place, aren't they being used to catch thieves, robbers, etc...? Hard to catch robbers if their faces are blotted out.

this solution does't work .. the blotted out video is more than likely to stored unblotted out as well ---

"A scanner darkly"
"1984"
"Running man" ->see that cop he butchered all those people

I suppose some people like to be tracked all the time ... their personal locater devices (er um cell phones) do a good job anyway and with video to go with it

besides that will make it easier to CGI someone else's face doing the crime or staged crime

I think that as this tech progresses the ability that many digital cameras have right now, face recognition, will come into play. Instead of putting a dot on the people that are wearing a particular color of hat, it will simply recognize when a face is on the screen and dot it out.

The dots stay on during normal operation, but if someone snatches a purse, the police can collect the video, remove the dot from the culprit and then go and get them.