It ’s Friday night in the City by the Bay , you and your boy are out from Concord , rolling deeply in your old man ’s Escalade through North Beach . But what nine do you remove up first , where all them bellyache at ? With a new service debuting today , you ’ll know .
This organisation has already drawn the ire of San Francisco ’s resident hyper - privacy weirdos and ego - imposed “ privacy counselor-at-law ” who contend that the company has n’t done enough to protect venue patrons from having their pictures taken in public and does not admonish them powerfully enough that the taping is come .
“ It is in fact creepy ! ” drop a line Rebecca Jeschke , a digital rights analyst for the EFF , wrote toArs Technicaon Thursday . “ Looking at the privacy policy , they say they do n’t keep video or stills , but are silent on if they keep the measurement and other information they collect so as to make their conclusions about grammatical gender and age . That ’s a big motion for me . ”
This despite SceneTap ’s chief executive officer already noting that , “ once the data is triggered , the images are overwritten , delete , gone . There are no tapes . There is no telecasting provender either . No one can go to www.scenetap.com and see what is happening . It ’s all data point and numbers - that ’s it . And since we ’re only focalize on the door , you ’re destitute to do keg stands and dance like Bernie or hit on that bartender all you require - we do not track you in the venue ” in anopen letterto San Francisco .
The kerfluffle has already caused several locus to pull out of the labor let in Mr. Smith ’s , Southpaw , John Colins , and Bar None ( the last one which , if you ’re see for blistering blonde girls that say “ umm ” and “ like ” a circumstances , is the double-dyed home for you to come to up first ) .
As a aboriginal San Franciscan , I ’ve father to say that this is a petty subject to protest even by our own flower child standards . Bars , club , eating house , even McDonald ’s picture you from the second you ill-treat substructure on - premise for security measure purpose . They let you know they are doing so by putting a little sticker in the windowpane that read so , just like SceneTap does . Does calling it a security camera make it more legit than calling it a “ mass - counterpunch ” camera ? No . What ’s more , are we even sure that the venues are properly discard of their older security footage ? Do we give a shit if they are ? No , because these places are public — there is no explicit right to privacy . Now granted SceneTap is a douchey app set up to assist douche bags to more efficiently sleaze their room through my sightly city , but these unceasing , shrill battle cry for absolute privateness sound suspiciously like the mating calls of Luddites . [ Ars Technica ]
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