Two questions that come immediately to mind are these: (1) what's the
rationale for installations of the cameras and (2) will the streams be
public?
For those who missed it, the NYT recently published an article about the
application of cheap commodity facial recognition technology to a public
cambot stream, and the results were pretty distressing. When considering
the tradeoffs of camera installations, it's - obviously - important for the
stakeholders to understand the implications. But those implications aren't
obvious. Or at least they weren't to me. TLDR: for about $50, the Times was
able to buy time from a service such as Amazon's Rekognition and monitor
the activities of an arbitrary stranger.
Even if the streams aren't intended to be public, one has to wonder if the
mechanisms to secure them actually work. Examples abound where maintainers
of such services wrongly believed that simply failing to publicize the
address of a stream was equivalent to securing it, but it ain't.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:13 AM John Coleman via Bikies <
bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
> Please give your views on the installation of surveillance cameras along
> the East Side bike path between S. Blount and S. Brearly Streets.
> These will be the first cameras installed specifically on a City bike
> path, so full vetting of the issues is important.
>
> Input on the question has been so far somewhat limited. Some members of
> the MNA board have been soliciting support for the cameras. Given the
> strong feelings many have about safety and privacy, it is important that
> all points of view have an opportunity to be heard.
>
> Regardless of whether one is for or against the use of surveillance
> cameras to address safety issues, the important thing is that the diverse
> views in the neighborhood are heard. If you think a neighborhood meeting
> to discuss this question is warranted, please let District 6 alder, Marsha,
> know.
>
> So please, if you have thoughts either pro or con, or mixed feelings. Let
> the Board and Marsha know. And if you feel comfortable doing so, copy your
> views to this listserv.
> MNAboard
> Marsha Rummel
> bikies
>
> thanks,
> john
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