wiseStart with the boundaries.
Ask what a system should be allowed to do before building everything it could do.
THE WISE PROJECT
Cameras can be useful.
They need better boundaries.
We think public-safety cameras can help. We also think the rules around them need a lot more work.
LET’S FIGURE OUT THE RULES FIRST.Why this is hard
01 / THE QUESTION
Useful doesn’t have to
mean unlimited.
Cameras can help find a missing person or a stolen car. They can also make it far too easy to track people. The hard part is deciding what they can keep, who can search it, and when the answer should be no.
Wise starts with those rules. We want the legal and civil-liberties limits built into the product from the beginning.
Explore Flock Horror Stories02 / THE APPROACH
See what matters.
Forget what doesn’t.
Make room for scrutiny.
A rule is only as strong as its hardest edge case. Public criticism is part of the design process.
Keep the useful part.
Explore public-safety value without treating that value as permission for unlimited surveillance.
WE NEED MORE THAN ONE POINT OF VIEW.