> I illegally search and seize everyone I lay my eyes on
This is where you need to keep in mind that there's a spectrum and a balance. Ultimately it's up to the Supreme Court to decide where the cut-off points are. To take your example and riff on it a bit:
- There's you walking to work and mentally taking note of everyone you walk past
- There's you walking to work with a video camera and casually recording everyone you walk past
- There's you walking to work with a video camera and getting into people's personal space to make sure your video accurate captures enough of their facial features to make a positive biometric identification
- There's you walking to work, seeing someone in particular, and following them to their destination while recording the entire time
- There's you putting up a high-resolution camera in front of your house to record everyone walking past, whether or not you're watching it at the time
- There's you putting up time-synchronized high-resolution cameras on every light post in your neighbourhood
- There's taking your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras and adding facial/person recognition to it so that you automatically get a timestamped path of where everyone walked at what time
- There's expanding your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras with person recognition to cover your entire city and selling access to person-location data
Figuring out where the acceptable/unacceptable cutoff line is for private citizens, corporations, and governments is going to be an interesting question that'll have to be answered in the near future.
This is where you need to keep in mind that there's a spectrum and a balance. Ultimately it's up to the Supreme Court to decide where the cut-off points are. To take your example and riff on it a bit:
- There's you walking to work and mentally taking note of everyone you walk past
- There's you walking to work with a video camera and casually recording everyone you walk past
- There's you walking to work with a video camera and getting into people's personal space to make sure your video accurate captures enough of their facial features to make a positive biometric identification
- There's you walking to work, seeing someone in particular, and following them to their destination while recording the entire time
- There's you putting up a high-resolution camera in front of your house to record everyone walking past, whether or not you're watching it at the time
- There's you putting up time-synchronized high-resolution cameras on every light post in your neighbourhood
- There's taking your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras and adding facial/person recognition to it so that you automatically get a timestamped path of where everyone walked at what time
- There's expanding your network of time-synchronized high-resolution cameras with person recognition to cover your entire city and selling access to person-location data
Figuring out where the acceptable/unacceptable cutoff line is for private citizens, corporations, and governments is going to be an interesting question that'll have to be answered in the near future.