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2009-04-29

I Have Seen Big Brother, and He Is Us

Via Singularity Hub, I learned of a new site, Ugolog, which promises to turn any Webcam into a motion detection camera. Now you—or anyone, for that matter—can monitor remotely any area on which you choose to train a digital camera. The service will store and make searchable the video data, which will undoubtedly be tagged with date, time, and geographic data.

I guess if anyone is keeping track of our comings and goings, it's better that it is each other, rather than Google or the government. Or is it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! We got big brother watching us and Google reading our minds.

These blogs make me paranoid!

librarian@play said...

Don't be paranoid, be aware. Especially since we're willingly handing over our own privacy to the Web and its masters. Understand the system in order to subvert it.