Re: Grassland: A Scorched Earth AI "Eye" Recording ALL Human Activity
coming back to your idea 
Despite that the objective sounds a bit too massive to attain, at the moment it does seem realistic to me, from the tech point of view.
Question about privacy is more from the legal side - this is an intrusion into the personal life, without a consent. Even if the system is distributed, people who maintain it are at risk. Surely it is likely that govts might have some similar systems, but they don't go public with them.
Despite that the objective sounds a bit too massive to attain, at the moment it does seem realistic to me, from the tech point of view.
Question about privacy is more from the legal side - this is an intrusion into the personal life, without a consent. Even if the system is distributed, people who maintain it are at risk. Surely it is likely that govts might have some similar systems, but they don't go public with them.
In many countries there is the legal concept of public and private settings. Do people use Instagram in your country? Do they take pictures with their phone in public? It's legal as long as it's legal in your country for people to appear in the background of a photo without their consent like people in the background of a photo in a park, on the street, shopping mall, concerts etc. places where people have no expectation of privacy. So if you end up in the background of someone's Instagram photo and they didn't commit a crime for doing according to your laws, well this isn't even as bad as that.
It's not as bad as that because nodes don't even keep nor publish what they capture, they're just identifying the type of objects in the frame using deep learning. Once that's done and verified, they discard the frames. So if it's illegal to identify that someone is a person using the visual spectrum (light), well... you're doing that every second of the day with your eyes and your brain, are you not?
As to the objective, we might not get there, but as long as there are people in the world who like money, the remaining "dark" areas of the map will continue to be "lightened up".
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