I Know what you were doing every hour today

This is a personal records information in daily life
(This example of Mr.A who is a staff at National Human Rights Commission)

I Know What You Were Doing every hour today

Recently, thanks to CCTV, the criminal who attempted to take armored truck in Jongno, Seoul has arrested. The man who stole Choi Jinsil(최진실)’s urn also has caught by using CCTV.

CCTV which is set on streets, outer walls of buildings, side streets, offices and elevators puts a record of people who walk along there. CCTV is not the only one recording. It is surly recorded where you get on and off the bus or subway, when, where you go online, who do you talk on the phone with.

How much my records will have recorded from going to the office to leaving the office, get back to home then go to bed? Mr. A, who is a staff at National Human Rights Commission of Korea had examined his own daily “trace”. It is perfect enough so that it is able to reconstruct at interval of minute from as soon as he leaves home to get back to home.

Mr. A lives by himself for job. He travels from Gwangju which is his main house to Seoul on every Monday. On Monday 4 : 35 in the morning, his ‘track’ started to remain, calling a taxi by using cell phone. His face is taken as a picture in front of elevator and apartment complex, when he leaves home. Also, when he arrived at Gwangju station to take a train, his figure was remained on CCTV that is located in a gateway.

While he got off the Yongsan station, transfer to subway to go to City hall, and then he went into the office, his records was remained everywhere. After he arrived at the office and then when he accessed administration network and log on messenger or portal site, logon information was recorded. His own information has been recorded by CCTV about 200 times and his credit card number put record at 7-8 places until he went back to home.

The meantime, this kind of records has been kept in storage device independently, and it almost has been deleted when some periods has passed. CCTV images are digitized, however, it has been changing for storages devices to possible to access throughout network. Technology has developed that analyze CCTV images which put recorded at several places and then find some so that be able to reconstruct how to he or she has moved in every hour.

Personal records remained in everywhere of daily life are useful when we seize a criminal or find missing children. The problem is when we abuse it, it could be suppress a fact or be distort information beyond violation of human rights. Situation could be occurred such as the movie, Enemy Of The state, in reality. In this movie, there is a scene that information agency which killed a member of Congress for political reasons manipulates some records like CCTV images and push a citizen who has a storage device that recorded about the crime to a cliff to suppress a crime fact.