The team at BugLabs has brought a bug online with a simple ‘crowdsourced security’ app. http://www.bugblogger.com/2008/05/building-a-crow.html It’s just a few steps away from an app that I want to create with the Bug. We live on a street that goes up a slight hill to the elementary school. Lots of kids have to cross it on their way to school. Despite the 30 mph speed limit some folks zip up and down the hill going way too fast. I want to hook up a bug to some kind of speed measurement (maybe just use two bugs with motion detectors) and take a picture of every car that goes too fast, then post that image to tumblr together with the speed. If more people do stuff like that it will of course raise some interesting privacy issues. I am not sure yet how I feel about those, except to say that if you go 50 in a school zone I don’t think you can appeal to privacy.

The team at BugLabs has brought a bug online with a simple ‘crowdsourced security’ app. http://www.bugblogger.com/2008/05/building-a-crow.html It’s just a few steps away from an app that I want to create with the Bug. We live on a street that goes up a slight hill to the elementary school. Lots of kids have to cross it on their way to school. Despite the 30 mph speed limit some folks zip up and down the hill going way too fast. I want to hook up a bug to some kind of speed measurement (maybe just use two bugs with motion detectors) and take a picture of every car that goes too fast, then post that image to tumblr together with the speed. If more people do stuff like that it will of course raise some interesting privacy issues. I am not sure yet how I feel about those, except to say that if you go 50 in a school zone I don’t think you can appeal to privacy.