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This Surveillance Artist Knows How You Got That Perfect Instagram Photo

Video Surveillance Monitoring Biometric Data Social Media Privacy Impact Assessment DPIA
Oct 4, 2022 Source
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> Mr. Depoorter realized that he could come up with an automated way to combine these publicly available cameras with the photos that people had posted on Instagram. So, over a two-week period, he collected EarthCam footage broadcast online from Times Square in New York, Wrigley Field in Chicago and the Temple Bar in Dublin. > Rand Hammoud, a campaigner against surveillance at the global human rights organization Access Now, said the project illustrated how often people are unknowingly being fi

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Mr. Depoorter realized that he could come up with an automated way to combine these publicly available cameras with the photos that people had posted on Instagram. So, over a two-week period, he collected EarthCam footage broadcast online from Times Square in New York, Wrigley Field in Chicago and the Temple Bar in Dublin.Rand Hammoud, a campaigner against surveillance at the global human rights organization Access Now, said the project illustrated how often people are unknowingly being filmed by surveillance cameras, and how easy it has become to stitch those movements together using automated biometric-scanning technologies.“It’s a dystopian reality that a lot of people don’t realize is now present,” Ms. Hammoud said.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/technology/surveillance-footage-instagram.html?smtyp=cur

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