Respectful Cameras

this is a pretty cool video. its fasinating what kind of technology they have out there to do those kinds of things...crazy.

I think this completely is against the point of what a security camera is. If you are gonna block out identities and not know who has committed the crime you may as well not have cameras at all. Security camera footage is used to watch for and review crimes; if you aren't doing anything wrong who cares if you're on camera.

All our parents had privacy why cant we!?
I want privacy and some damn respect. Why don't they just leave us alone? turn the cameras off.

i think anything that records me without my permission is taking away my privacy. invading everyone's privacy all the time for the chance that the footage might help in solving a "crime" seems like too big of a price to pay.

~google earth is cool but creepy as well. the thought of anyone who has your info being able to look at your house and your cars is weird.

I thought somebody was watching.

All we have to do here in the United States is to look at our friends across the pond in England. There was a clothing company coming about that created clothing that would hide your face and build by design. I could see this catching on if the privacy issue continues. The clothing company had a pod on current at one point in time.

A thought to the marker. If I purchase this item, you could eventually tag that with GPS, or just a number and I will be associated with that number and tracked. Next you are going to want to put a chip in me so you cannot see my face, but always know where I am at and what I am doing.

Technology our friend. Technology our enemy.

Well; if they are going to do it to us, let's put them in the white house while we're at it.

Very interesting pod - but their research seems largely pointless.

All this does is remove some of the immediacy of privacy invasion. Sure, it blocks faces from the guard monitoring the live feeds - but the dots are ADDED to the image... The cameras & computers still see / record your face at some point in the signal flow...

All it comes down to is this: If you've got something to hide, you're not going to hide it in public, where surveillance continues to increase.

Either we establish firm boundaries in privacy, or we don't.

Eventually, I bet someone will start marketing latex prosthetics you can wear to alter your face just enough to the point that recognition software is thrown off.

I think the dots should be smiley faces. Smiley faces make me happy.

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.

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 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.

It's like NOBODY HAS READ 1984!

WTF?

How am I supposed to steal stuff now?

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

smile you are candid camera!

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

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.

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....

Freedom is essentially inversely proportional to how secure you are.

For me, I'll take true freedom.

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

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

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?

Ill by two, bob franks!

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.

It is george orwell nightmare coming to live .

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.

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.

Interesting technology

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.

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.

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

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.