Wherefore Art Thou, O Romeo ?

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 “ 

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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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