Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/1 ... id=4895404

Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet.

Welcome to surveillance society.

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Just as long as they don't use text-to-speech software to put everything the microphones pick up into a text-searchable database, with links to the accompanying video.

And just as long as your transit pass doesn't have a number or RFID tag that was recorded when you got on the bus, which could be linked to the visa or debit card that purchased it. Or just a general-purpose RFID reader on the bus that read the tags in everyone's clothing, to be traced via the visa or debit cards that purchased them, to give the identities of everyone on the bus.

Or just simply use face recognition connected to driver's licence, passport and other databases to find your identity. And link that identity to the text in the database.

That would be bad.

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Just as long as they don't use text-to-speech software to put everything the microphones pick up into a text-searchable database, with links to the accompanying video.

And just as long as your transit pass doesn't have a number or RFID tag that was recorded when you got on the bus, which could be linked to the visa or debit card that purchased it. Or just a general-purpose RFID reader on the bus that read the tags in everyone's clothing, to be traced via the visa or debit cards that purchased them, to give the identities of everyone on the bus.

Or just simply use face recognition connected to driver's licence, passport and other databases to find your identity. And link that identity to the text in the database.

That would be bad.

Don't worry, they're already doing that on our phone systems.