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Unfortunately, that assumes that "you" have that choice. Individually, I'm sure you can rip out, mutilate, deface, damage or what have you to devices that report fine-grained time-series data. But the moment you go anywhere else, you're being recorded, watched, monitored, measured, and recorded. It's already being done, and it's way past time that we do have that discussion. Because without string and stark dialogue, we'll end up with "We're not doing anything wrong, so why should we care?" kind of responses. Or worse yet, people won't understand what something like accurate TS data from power input can lead to.[0] And as an addition on the above comment, I also wrote a CPU-bound facial recognition app. I wrote it initially for a convention that we have for our hackerspace every year... But it took me a week to do in my spare time, using

Not at all. I already wrote a system that can take new facial inputs, classify you as "new user", and put your data in a database. All you need do is go up to the door. I can easily view the timecode and enter your details (name, phone#, email) at a later date. source: https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho news article about it: http://hackaday.com/2015/03/04/face-recognition-for-your-nex...