Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Baltimore buses can record your conversations

A bill moving through the Maryland General Assembly proposes new limits on audio devices that record conversations on public buses.

Wait, there are devices that eavesdrop on us on mass transit?

It’s yet another example of the tension between technological capability, public safety and privacy that’s “the issue of our generation,” bill sponsor State Sen. Robert Zirkin (D-Baltimore County) tells the Washington Post’s Ovetta Wiggins — adding that what’s happening on mass transit is “mass surveillance.”

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Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore



from http://baltimoretech.org/news/baltimore-buses-can-record-your-conversations/

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