If Shri B N SriKrishna , heading the Committee on drafting the Data Protection Law , was to read the following news ( source : Eco
Times / 19 sept ) , he might cry out :
Wherefore
Art Thou , O Privacy ?
A company called Ubiquiti Labs has come out with a fancy looking 2 “ round pendant (
named FrontRow ) , meant to be worn
with a lanyard around the neck
It has 2 cameras ; 8 megapixel that faces
the World and a 5 megapixel that points towards your body
This light weight and sleek pendant can take photos and videos ( 1080p ) – as you walk
around in a garden or in a roomful of people - and live-stream to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube , via
Bluetooth or Wi Fi , and has 50 hours of standby battery life , which
you can charge via USB
I am sure , it is only a matter of time before FrontRow can connect up with latest Apple Smart Watch ,
which carries e-SIM and does not require you to carry your mobile in your pocket
, in order to make / receive calls
And how long before FrontRow connects up with your Augumented Reality ( AR ) headset ? Or face recognition feature of iPhone X ?
And pre-loaded with Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligent face recognition
app “ Seeing AI “ ?
And preloaded with your Aadhar Card ID or with Google’s just
released Mobile Wallet app . Tez ?
The “ and “ are endless !
Just ask those thousands of Chinese hardware enthusiasts and Indian software
geeks who must have thought of all of these possibilities before I did !
Will that proposed Data Protection Law tell
girls around the World :
“ Sorry !
You cannot wear FrontRow around your neck or as a
tiara on your forehead “
Do not be surprised if those geeks have anticipated just such a
possibility and started morphing FrontRow into a tattoo patch called “ ShingarBindi “
!
Scott McNally ( one time CEO of Sun Micro ) had seen this future and said
:
“ Privacy is dead . Period . Get over it “
20 Sept 2017
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