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It kind of ticks me off that people lose their collective "sh##" when things like Google Glass and Narrative help to give power to the civilian to record things
by throwaway675309 8y ago
It kind of ticks me off that people lose their collective "sh##" when things like Google Glass and Narrative help to give power to the civilian to record things in an unobtrusive manner but that people are totally fine with the ubiquitous billions of eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras (see London) that the government uses to watch us every second.
- jacobolus 8y ago> ticks me off that people lose their collective shit when things like Google Glass [record ubiquitously but] people are totally fine with the ubiquitous billions of eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras The overlap between the “people” who don’t like Google to record their lives and the “people” who don’t care if the police do it is quite small... But in any case the police in a democracy are at least nominally accountable to the populace, and can be checked via elections and other mechanisms. The mission of police is ostensibly for public benefit and includes criminal investigation, which surveillance could arguably help with. Google is a multinational corporation accountable primarily to itself which wants the data to help with its advertising business.
- throwaway675309 8y agoI appreciate the response, and I'm not trying to be sarcastic but the operative word here is "nominally". While it's nice in theory to view law enforcement and the government as some kind of trustworthy body whose purpose is to serve and protect, in reality that kind of power is often abused. Look how long it took for bodycams on police to be used and even then, they get conveniently broken, battery dies, or just blatently turned off. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? and all that.
- kurtisc 8y agoThe cameras in London are mostly private.