Distributed Public Recording

Carl Hewitt (1)

1 MOHC - Met Office Hadley Centre

Distributed Public Recording (DPR) is a system in which distributed public and private organizations (e.g., stores, restaurants, sports events, parks, theaters, etc.) keep electronic records (that can be accessed only with a court subpoena and otherwise must be completely erased after two years) of all activity that takes place in public places including tracking automobiles, cell phones, humans (using facial recognition), etc. and all financial transactions. Advanced Inconsistency Robust information technology can be a very powerful tool for catching criminals using DPR, which is a less risky to security than requiring mandatory backdoors for all Internet of Things (IoT) devices, e.g., cell phones, refrigerators, TVs, PCs, Internet LEDs, etc.

Mots clés: Mandatory backdoors; IoT; surveillance; distributed public recording

Domaines: Ingénierie, finance et science [cs.CE]

Carl Hewitt. Distributed Public Recording: Providing Security Without the Risks of Mandatory Backdoors. 2015. ⟨hal-01152495v4⟩