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I really worry about data privacy -- it's trivial for Amazon to capture tons of video of people and use this for a variety of purposes. It's like street view bu

I really worry about data privacy -- it's trivial for Amazon to capture tons of video of people and use this for a variety of purposes. It's like street view but with a million more cameras that can be positioned on demand. I think we need more policy around our rights to images of ourselves... in particular I think we are reaching a phase in human society where data is an extension of the human self rather than existing as a foreign object. Existing laws and judicial philosophy need to be amended to reflect this fact.

cookiecaper 10y ago
The pace of technical change in society has greatly outpaced the ability of our legislative and judicial systems to cope with it. While I hate to say it, as the difficulty of passing law is an important protection from an overzealous government, we need to find some way to get these things expedited (and expedited like in real person terms, not legal terms where an expeditious case is one that is finally resolved 5 years later -- many cases stretch on for ~10 years after accounting for appeals, etc., and some even longer). It'd be a really interesting thought experiment to try to revise our legal systems in a way that allows them to match the pace of technical change whilst keeping protections from government overreach in place.