[ExI] recorder ring

[Adrian Tymes]

Google Earth/Maps already tracks your location passively - and tries to
promote it as a service.  Get the kinds of smartphones that college kids
carry around constantly, more accurate GPSes that work indoors, and your
idea becomes close to reality.

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Perhaps some data hipsters can educate me.
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> We have a debate currently on what should be the standard of evidence when
> a student accuses another student of improprieties of any kind.  It seems
> like men are inherently vulnerable to accusation which doesn’t need proof
> (because usually there isn’t any.)
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> We could imagine some kind of device students could wear which would
> archive their location and record bits of sound, say a tenth of a second
> every second should be enough for what I have in mind.  It is unlikely to
> be able to reconstruct a conversation from that, but it could establish
> innocence of an accused person by archiving a location and a background
> noise description (roughly.)
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> This device would need to be something one wouldn’t take off when taking
> things off, such as a ring.  It would need a Bluetooth transmitter to send
> digital files to a phone (which would add location info and archive.)
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> If we could get enough students wearing these kinds of devices, it might
> lead us out of a deadlock where we don’t know how much weight to put on
> accusations.  The accused could produce evidence.
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> I don’t know what kind of data-storage capacity such a thing would
> require, if the phone could dump info to a desktop computer each day.  Any
> hipsters on that here?
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> spike
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