[demallien]

Ow, I don't know why you're getting downvoted, the point seems reasonable to me.

Defences against this type of application do need to be developed, and not just for celebrities, but for all of us. What happens in 20 years time when all of those security cameras have been networked, and hooked up to processing centres capable of identifying individual humans from the images. We're all going to be under the surveillance hammer, and it's time to start thinking about how we are going to deal with that as a reality. To be clear, I'm thinking mostly about what happens when such a surveillance system is compromised by hackers/dishonest users of the system.

I'm thinking that defences are going to look something like a combination of a webcrawler to detect when your location is being diffused online, along with legal provisions that specifically punish this type of action. We need to start thinking about this stuff now, becuase it's going to take a long time to get the new laws in place, and I for one would much rather that the laws get written before I need them, not after...

[arethuza]

One defense would presumably to have coordinated publication of contrary data through multiple channels to an extent that the "real" data is drowned in a sea of noise.

Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_Channel where there is a blogger paid to post conspiracy theory nonsense by state security services to obscure the reality of various undercover operations.