We’ve got OCR. We’ve got cameraphones. We’ve got web-based license plate lookup services. Amazon Japan has a fancy cameraphone-based product search feature. What’s more naive, imagining that somewhere somebody has a SMS/MMS-based license plate snooping and facial recognition services and fingerprint scanners, or imagining that they don’t?
cameraphone, civil liberties, facial recognition, license plate recognition, mms, [...]
Posted November 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: cameraphone, civil liberties, facial recognition, license plate recognition, mms, mobile technology, picture phone, privacy, sms, snooping. Be the first one.
Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates.
All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging [...]
Posted June 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: agps, cell phone, coordinates, geolocation, gps, lattitude, longitude, map, mapping, maps, moblogging, network, networking application, palm, picture phone, social networking, wifi. 5 Comments.
