“A surprising device is capturing the vibe of a single street corner in San Francisco” | …it’s not surveillance if it’s art
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110442
#BopSpotter #surveillance
“A surprising device is capturing the vibe of a single street corner in San Francisco” | …it’s not surveillance if it’s art

This is a few weeks old now, but still fun; it thoroughly epitomises the issue of “intent” being a major aspect of threat / that software and services are not inherently evil just becau…

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“A surprising device is capturing the vibe of a single street corner in San Francisco” | …it’s not surveillance if it’s art

This is a few weeks old now, but still fun; it thoroughly epitomises the issue of “intent” being a major aspect of threat / that software and services are not inherently evil just because they have a particular metaphorical “shape”

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5135714/an-old-phone-in-a-plastic-box-captures-the-cultural-vibes-of-a-san-francisco-neighborhood

https://twitter.com/rtwlz/status/1840800316004188382

…and it got spotted:

https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1841022534848036949

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110442

#bopSpotter #surveillance

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Hidden ‘BopSpotter’ Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco for Good Music

“This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes."

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Amazing. https://walzr.com/bop-spotter "...on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco...a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly...a constant feed of what’s popping off in real-time." #BopSpotter
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Riley Walz hat da etwas Grossartiges gemacht: Ein billiges Android Phon, ein paar Solarzellen, eine belebte Kreuzung in San Francisco, offenes Wifi zum Nachhausetelefonieren, Shazam als ständig laufende App: Der Bop Spotter (ein Wortspiel mit dem unsinnigen Shot Spotter, einem US-System, das Schüsse identifizieren und die Cops alarmieren soll, wenn es zu spät ist) hört, was die Leute hören. Eine musikalische Dauerumfrage, eine Unterhaltungsdemoskopie, eine kulturwissenschaftliche Überwachungsaktion ohne Datenschutzprobleme: Der Bop Spotter zeigt uns, was gerade beliebt ist, ohne die gesammelten Informationen mit persönlichen Daten zu verknüpfen. Die hört Shazam nämlich nicht raus. Wie praktisch. Wie genial. via boingboing, jwz, pic screenshot

https://11k2.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/flotte-musik-statt-uberwachung/

#BopSpotter #musik #RileyWalz

This is cool: someone mounted an old #Android phone to a pole in #SanFrancisco and uses it to run random street noise recordings through #Shazam. It's currently picking up 124 songs per day! #BopSpotter #CultureSurveillance

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter/

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