Life Recorder 347
Bruce Schneier writes "In 2006, writing about future threats on privacy, I described a life recorder: A 'life recorder' you can wear on your lapel that constantly records is still a few generations off: 200 gigabytes/year for audio and 700 gigabytes/year for video. It'll be sold as a security device, so that no one can attack you without being recorded."
Re:The Final Cut (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/ [imdb.com]
That one you mean?
Re:Can't use it in MD (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hunny! (Score:4, Informative)
I'm pretty sure you are well past "She's not worth it" if you are having that discussion.
Re:Can't use it in MD (Score:3, Informative)
Sure you can.
No, not as far as audio is concerned. You cannot tape conversations in MD - even in public - if you do not have consent of both parties. Police in Baltimore use and abuse this law on a regular basis when they are filmed in public. Fark or Slashdot had a story on this many months ago.
Re:Bicycling (Score:5, Informative)
Bicycles are traffic.
There are restrictions, such as freeways, but this is true for most roads.
Re:Rogue-like (Score:3, Informative)
If these actually caught on, you'd be able to buy the $20 life camera jammer from the trunk of a car along with the $100 Hi-Point 9mm. Just because they need to be developed by geeks doesn't mean that, once developed, they can't then be made cheaply, even by morons. And there are plenty of geek criminals, too, it's not that hard to build a jamming device.\
Drunks and people on meth are notoriously bad at thinking of long term consequences. If a drunk is going to hit you, warning him that he might get arrested is not going to stop him. If a meth addict needs your money for meth, taking his picture isn't going to deter him at all.
Re:Can't use it in MD (Score:2, Informative)
Having a camera didn't work out so well for this guy in Maryland:
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/19/motorcyclist-arrested-for-recording-cop-brandishing-gun-with-hel/ [autoblog.com]
He ended up having his computers confiscated as recording the officer is considered a felony.