Kiosk Privacy? A New Porn Kiosk Makes The Case For Why It’s Not Private, While Arguing That It Is
Written by Evan SchumanMay 23rd, 2011
We don't typically do stories about pornography—marketing claims within retail IT are usually obscene enough for anybody—but the inherent retail privacy contradictions in this porn kiosk announcement were too much to resist. There is already an imminent consumer privacy collision with kiosks, given their data-sharing and network connections nature.
While this porn kiosk touts privacy, which would seem to make sense, it also requires a driver's license and a payment card. Those two documents certainly are good ideas, especially when arguing to retailers that the machines will not be usable by minors, but both also obliterate the claims of privacy. The issue speaks to all kiosks, but this case is a wonderfully extreme example.
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