I’ve been thinking this exact thing forever and it always felt weird to me that no one else (in my personal life anyway) considered it. The preponderance of cameras around us virtually every moment of every day kind of gives me the creeps.
Businesses and governments have security cameras. Your bank and credit processor will log every transaction you make, Your phone monitors your location, your cell company monitors it too. You have a good half-dozen firms monitoring you basically 24/7 for a variety of reasons. And it’s obviously not any better once you’re on the internet.
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With the growing ubiquity of self-driving vehicles I don’t see this trend reversing either. This will either have to be changed via laws, or with open source firmware/software. The latter could be a liability but that’s a separate discussion.
“We’re supposed to be able to go about our business in our day-to-day lives without being surveilled unless we are suspected of a crime, and each little bit of this technology strips away that ability.”
Sounds nice in theory, but that’s not true at all. From my understanding, there is no expectation of privacy in public.
It feels really strange, but we are all under satellite observation almost 24/7. There are observational drones that can loiter and collect ground data. This has been around for decades. Radio lab did a great episode about this.
It’s definitely creepy. There is no escaping it at this point :/.There’s escaping through legislation, it may take a bit of work.
And then the FBI, CIA, military will likely just ignore the law anyway.
