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For a while it was considered creepy to have a camera on your phone at all times. There was no way to know if you were filming/photographing at any time. Peopl
by wfo 11y ago
For a while it was considered creepy to have a camera on your phone at all times. There was no way to know if you were filming/photographing at any time.
People in certain secure facilities or attorneys in many courtrooms weren't allowed to bring in phones with cameras because of respect for the privacy/security of the information and people within.
Now there are no phones without cameras and the insistence on privacy in many of these facilities has been relaxed to saying "please don't take pictures". Not because it's not important, but because of consumer decisions on the whole demanding cameras, to the point where they are in every viable option and it's not feasible to ban them. And privacy/security are eroded.
So when you make a consumer choice like this you're giving our society a tiny little push in that direction. You're pushing always-on always-recording voice monitoring software in the most intimate places of our lives to become the new norm.