Unlike PRISM with it's dubious value of doing good (and the massive damage it did to related liberties), this has an actual public service (with relatively little potential damage).
If you are receiving medical care do you want everyone to know about it just because a cop walked into the room?
If you are a minor should your sealed records be more easily determined? (because a cop recorded them)
If you are a victim of a crime should your identity be made knowable to others who may wish to silence you? What about witnesses?
Note what the article said: The video must be released! Even if it's mostly blurred out. If it's suspicious then the police department can be sued to get the full video.
The problem is that we don't have the open source (or for that matter publicly available private technology) technology to easily deploy a verifiable DRM (which is what we want, we want to manage the digital rights of how this video is edited) system. The police of Seattle are willing to equip every officer with cameras "TODAY", "right NOW", except and besides some problems. This was a question of "how can we solve this problem so that we can do this thing". It doesn't have to be perfect.
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Unlike PRISM with it's dubious value of doing good (and the massive damage it did to related liberties), this has an actual public service (with relatively little potential damage).
If you are receiving medical care do you want everyone to know about it just because a cop walked into the room?
If you are a minor should your sealed records be more easily determined? (because a cop recorded them)
If you are a victim of a crime should your identity be made knowable to others who may wish to silence you? What about witnesses?
Note what the article said: The video must be released! Even if it's mostly blurred out. If it's suspicious then the police department can be sued to get the full video.
The problem is that we don't have the open source (or for that matter publicly available private technology) technology to easily deploy a verifiable DRM (which is what we want, we want to manage the digital rights of how this video is edited) system. The police of Seattle are willing to equip every officer with cameras "TODAY", "right NOW", except and besides some problems. This was a question of "how can we solve this problem so that we can do this thing". It doesn't have to be perfect.