Generation Legacy: Part Three

[Mimic]

I don't quite understand...Amy wouldn't work without the survelience. Just like when a human eye or ear records what it experiences, so does Amy. How is it supposed to hear, let alone understand, a request without listening? And how does a machine compute that request? It's not feasable otherwise. Perhaps allowing students to use it was the problem?

I think she is going more along the whole stalker/peeping tom sort of thing. How does she know that she isn't being recorded in the shower and then having the video sold online? Or even getting changed, making out with someone...

Where is this info being stored? Who has access? Can the janitor walk in and copy said info

 

[Agamon]

I think she is going more along the whole stalker/peeping tom sort of thing. How does she know that she isn't being recorded in the shower and then having the video sold online? Or even getting changed, making out with someone...

Where is this info being stored? Who has access? Can the janitor walk in and copy said info

Scroll up a bit, I explained it.

 

[Victim]

The governement needs to do some level of monitoring..yeah. But conversely it's our responsibility to keep the folks who do that responsible for their actions.

Of course, the characters here aren't exactly in that kind of position. They - or more accurately, their parents or legal guardians since most of the characters are minors - are opting into the surviellance for an economic benefit.

The UN didn't build the school out of the goodness of it's heart; it wants to trade access to its state of the facility and power training in a (theoretically) controlled and safe environment for more information about elites (and possibly other things). Sort of like when people get paid for participating in psych studies and such.

 

[Mimic]

Scroll up a bit, I explained it.

I know you did I was referring to in game, sorry, should have been more specific.

 

[Samnell]

Jerry doesn't care because he doesn't have a well-developed sense of privacy. His most positive and rewarding experiences of the past several years mostly involve 1) a wetsuit, 2) a speedo, or 3) both. Plus he likes being constantly surrounded by friends, so where does privacy enter into it?

I personally think that full video monitoring is overkill and a tad creepy, but it's one of those things I see as creepy in a potentially plot-full and juicy sort of way.

 

[Agamon]

I personally think that full video monitoring is overkill and a tad creepy, but it's one of those things I see as creepy in a potentially plot-full and juicy sort of way.

Exactly what I was shooting for. When I thought Amy up (and, honestly, there wasn't much thinking up to do thanks to Toki), I also thought the idea of persistently monitoring computer was creepy. But not nearly as much as a girl that reads your mind to communicate, which generated all of a couple shrugs and a frown. So, imagine my surprise at this response.

S'okay, my D&D group is completely unpredictable, too. I thrive on that kinda stuff, it's boring otherwise.

 

[Agamon]

I know you did I was referring to in game, sorry, should have been more specific.

Didn't I do that too? The info wouldn't be safer if it was buried 200 miles underground...though Amy wouldn't say something like that.

The administration consists of Hudabo and some higher ups in the UN, that's it. The info doesn't pass through a bunch of hands and, therefore, some shlob techie's not going to try and pilfer it. And you've got a better chance strolling into the DoD or CIA mainframe than getting info on a bunch of kids form Amy.

But I have no problem with some students being anywhere form uncomfortable to paranoid about it. Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy paranoia... ...der, I mean, keep clicking the wrong smilie

 

[Shalimar]

Layla is one girl, she isn't even in the same league as a system that is monitoring everyone 24/7 and recording all of it. I guess my/Clover's main objections to it are that it records in the living quarters, everyone needs a safe zone where they can be themselves without fear, where they aren't inhibited because they are afraid of what people might say. If the dorms (and locker rooms) were off limits to Amy, it wouldn't be too big of a deal. Recording in the school's public areas is fine and would be pretty much expected, its the recording in the private areas that isn't kosher. And it really isn't unreasonable to think so, it isn't paranoid to think they are watching you 24/7 when they have already said they are.

My preference would be to have Amy not monitoring in private areas, but with the ability to turn her on in that area when she is needed. Like a call button being pressed to give her temporary access or something similair.

It would also help to not let the kids have access to it, even if it is limited access because it raises the specter of them somehow getting more access.

Of course the obvious solution to all of this is to never wear clothes since they aren't allowed to record minors naked.

 

[Vanifae]

I found the mind reading girl to be very creepy, personally.

 

[Vanifae]

My retort is this, let one student die or seriously hurt themselves in their private areas and that would just be terrible. The UN and by extension the school has a duty to know what is going on; either by putting a nosy RA on the floor who makes random room checks and weekly inspections or what have you or a non-intrusive super sophisticated computer system that simply exists to provide immediate response.

I think that maybe I am not seeing the issue, your (the student's) privacy is maintained but this isn't Clover's home. Besides Clover should be used to living in an environment with CCTV if she is royalty... securing important people is a whole industry. I am just not seeing the issue on that level; sure she should be afraid of someone taking an embarrassing photo but that isn't what Amy from my understanding does. She isn't recording this stuff to go look at later and eat popcorn. She is observing reacting to potentially dangerous situations, informing other students/personnel that blank is looking for them, assisting users, and well being a soulless machine designed to provide non-obtrusive security.

If anything creepy mind reading girl is just bad, Amy as far as we know does not think, she reacts based on a sophisticated set of protocols to protect the students. Like Victim said this is a service being provided by the UN any good parent will feel safer knowing that their child has access to immediate assistance if harm comes to them. Considering the peculiar students at the school, I think it isn't Draconian it's good sense and actually less obtrusive then tons of staff walking around making sure we don't get lost, hurt, or god forbid, get into something that causes serious if not fatal harm.

In-game I am all for it, but out-of-game I am not seeing the issue.