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<blockquote data-quote="trevorsehrer" data-source="post: 376070" data-attributes="member: 34093"><p>Thank you for giving me the chance to address your concerns. Lenstag was designed to be pseudonymous from the start because I don't want it to become a subpoena magnet. All it asks for is an email address and password. That's it. No names, addresses or anything else.</p><p></p><p>And Lenstag isn't a company, it's a project. Note how nothing is copyright "Lenstag, Inc." or anything that like. It's just me. I verify every single serial number item image that comes through (sometimes my wife (who is a photographer and has had gear stolen) does help me when I get swamped). </p><p></p><p>Lastly, yes my day job is at Google but this project is totally separate from my work Google, they hold no interest in it, all opinions are my own and not those of my employer, etc. Why anyone (let alone my employer) would offer me money for Lenstag is beyond me. It loses money every month because I refuse to charge for it, takes up basically all of my nights, weekends and vacations and requires at least one actual human being to make the thing work (making sure images of serial numbers match what people have typed in).</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I understand your concerns and this is something I'm constantly asked about but it's just not the case. There is no personal information to leak, it's not like Lenstag even verifies your email address. This is simply a project to end photo & video equipment theft (and help fight copyright infringement) because no one else was doing it and I believe Lenstag has a really good chance of accomplishing that goal. It does need your help, however.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, yes lots of folks have insurance but insurance won't replace gear with images on it stolen at an event, a ruined vacation because your camera disappeared, etc. And having to deal with the police. It took my wife over a month over regular phone calls just to get a policeman to show up to take a report so she could file her insurance claim after a couple Nikon flashes were stolen (she shoots with a D800 and wants to get a D810). It'd just be better if it was extremely difficult/impossible to resell stolen gear so photographers would stop being targets. I get to read about how photographers are drugged, stabbed, mugged, and all manner of cruel things every day with the theft reports people leave. Yet cameras and lenses have identifiers like cars and carjacking is something unheard of or at least very rare in most locales. Isn't a world without camera theft one you'd rather live in?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trevorsehrer, post: 376070, member: 34093"] Thank you for giving me the chance to address your concerns. Lenstag was designed to be pseudonymous from the start because I don't want it to become a subpoena magnet. All it asks for is an email address and password. That's it. No names, addresses or anything else. And Lenstag isn't a company, it's a project. Note how nothing is copyright "Lenstag, Inc." or anything that like. It's just me. I verify every single serial number item image that comes through (sometimes my wife (who is a photographer and has had gear stolen) does help me when I get swamped). Lastly, yes my day job is at Google but this project is totally separate from my work Google, they hold no interest in it, all opinions are my own and not those of my employer, etc. Why anyone (let alone my employer) would offer me money for Lenstag is beyond me. It loses money every month because I refuse to charge for it, takes up basically all of my nights, weekends and vacations and requires at least one actual human being to make the thing work (making sure images of serial numbers match what people have typed in). Anyhow, I understand your concerns and this is something I'm constantly asked about but it's just not the case. There is no personal information to leak, it's not like Lenstag even verifies your email address. This is simply a project to end photo & video equipment theft (and help fight copyright infringement) because no one else was doing it and I believe Lenstag has a really good chance of accomplishing that goal. It does need your help, however. Lastly, yes lots of folks have insurance but insurance won't replace gear with images on it stolen at an event, a ruined vacation because your camera disappeared, etc. And having to deal with the police. It took my wife over a month over regular phone calls just to get a policeman to show up to take a report so she could file her insurance claim after a couple Nikon flashes were stolen (she shoots with a D800 and wants to get a D810). It'd just be better if it was extremely difficult/impossible to resell stolen gear so photographers would stop being targets. I get to read about how photographers are drugged, stabbed, mugged, and all manner of cruel things every day with the theft reports people leave. Yet cameras and lenses have identifiers like cars and carjacking is something unheard of or at least very rare in most locales. Isn't a world without camera theft one you'd rather live in? [/QUOTE]
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