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In the US, it's been long held people do not have the "expectation of privacy" while out in public. One of the major issues that you've kinda touched on is how would it be enforced? So are you opposed to all forms of recording? Or is this more focused on a corporation potentially gathering data on people just by being in public where someone is wearing these?
IMO expectation of privacy is valid, but I believe people should also have the right to reasonably know if they're being recorded. Recording people in public's one thing if you have your phone out and are waving it around pointing it at people, but it's a whole other thing if it's a concealed or otherwise hidden recording device.
Ring doorbells, and the like, are everywhere. Hell, I had a bear cruise in the dog door a couple of years ago. Neighbors produced security cam pics and I had no clue they had cameras!
At this point, we might as well assume we're being recorded the moment we step out our front door.
Ah true, I totally forgot about those.
God I don't like our current timeline 😔
It's only valid in private venues. We don't know when were being recorded now and have not really known for decades. This isn't going to change anything on that front.
But something to detect their emissions etc in private venues would be a good idea. That or deployable jamming for Bluetooth and WiFi etc on site.
Ya, and I think that's something that should change. I should have the right to, within reason, be able to know I'm being recorded at any time.
It would be a nice to have. But there is no realistic way to do that. It is an unreasonable request. At any point in time when you are outside you are being observed by any number of satellites. Through any number of windows. From all number of arbitrary distances. You may as well request omniscience. Since you have an equal chance of obtaining it.
I just kind of assume my phone is going to give out more information than a camera ever could, so the very least those companies can do is give me access to that data.
There's a difference between "on apple's servers" and "a million people harassing you after being pulled into a Livestream against your will" though.
Both are bad, one is worse.
I think we're getting to the point where "expectation of privacy" and "expectation of not being uploaded" need to be separated.
I fully agree with the idea that there should be no expectation of privacy in public, but I also don't think filming some random person and posting them online should be carte blanche allowed.
At the time it made sense. But laws need to change with the times. In the future you'll have people wearing these shitty glasses with cameras all around you all day every day cataloging your movements and entering them into giant corporate data centers. Something needs to change.
Also in the US, there has been this bizarre expectation that "if it's illegal, it will go away", which is how we have this shitty War on (some) Drugs, "assault" "weapon" bans, and people thinking that we have to completely outlaw AI.
The tech is here. It's going to be legal. We just have to figure out how to deal with it.
Legally speaking, you pretty much consent to being recorded when you step outside your own private space as far as I know.