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Just because there is no expectation of privacy does not mean that a reasonable person would assume that their every action is being recorded in precise detail
by pyre 9y ago
Just because there is no expectation of privacy does not mean that a reasonable person would assume that their every action is being recorded in precise detail to be stored away forever by a third party.
- fixermark 9y ago... but mostly because reasonable people haven't been brought up to speed on what is technologically feasible now.
- Silhouette 9y agoA lot of things are technologically feasible, and in many cases can't realistically be prevented ahead of time, yet are still considered socially unacceptable or even made illegal. Just because we can do something, that doesn't mean we should. This principle has never been more relevant than in the use of technology.
- nathan_long 9y agoWhat's technologically feasible is irrelevant to our moral expectations. It's technologically feasible to brain you with a club and steal your stuff, and has been for millennia. Preventing the misuse of Blunt Instrument Technologies™ is literally what laws are for. Surveillance is just a club we don't have laws about yet, but should.