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Nobody wants that, but you better get used to it. The world we live in is post-privacy. I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Googl
by nilved 10y ago
Nobody wants that, but you better get used to it. The world we live in is post-privacy.
I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Google Glass, the dozens of CCTV cameras you encounter daily, and Steve Mann's face. It will hardly be any more time before consumers are able to see through walls.
- sachel1sta 10y agoThe future is not set in stone. You cannot predict the future. You cannot even tell what happens in the next 5 minutes. Privacy is a significant concern for many. Not just individuals, but organizations work to ensure privacy is respected, and more (e.g. through policy). Active research occurs, and technology is developed specifically to create privacy-respecting systems and augment the ones that don't already do so.
- nilved 10y agoWe're not talking about the future, so prediction is unnecessary. But to your point: in my experience as an experienced and security-inclined engineer, this is an arms race where privacy doesn't win.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoYou are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. It is not an engineering problem first. And as a person who understands more about the problem, it is in fact your obligation to stand up and explain this to a fellow man, not just stand hands down in defeat.
- nilved 10y agoI did just explain that, and was told I was predicting things that have already happened...
- eveningcoffee 10y agoI think people rather told you that regardless what has been happened, this does not have to be in the future.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoThe future is what we make it to be. All technology does not work inside a vacuum, it works in the society and society is made up by contracts, most importantly it is made up by laws and the laws are made, at least in democracy by elected representatives.
- curried_haskell 10y agoThe future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be. Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great. People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars. We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoPersonally I do not think that the recording is a problem by itself. Problem is with who this recording is shared.
- calgoo 10y agoExactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoThe only place these IoT things should be is on the shelves if companies are stupid enough to produce them. :( I try to explain it always if I have change. Our houses should not leak information. This is very dangerous for the society as a whole.