A telling association fallacy. Unlike Zuck, I pose that Privacy is not dead. It starts to smell funny though. Of course, I am a realist: Police Officers are usi

A telling association fallacy. Unlike Zuck, I pose that Privacy is not dead. It starts to smell funny though. Of course, I am a realist: Police Officers are using Google Earth to look in the walled gardens of suspicious civilians. It is public data. So if you are already resigning to big data surveillance without reasonable suspicion, then it will only take a few decades before we all move in public under the watchful gaze of a gazillion drones. The erosion has already started with these highly funded real-name real-face social networks. No fun being the target of surveillance without suspicion, because it increases the chance of bad things happening to you. Nearly everyone breaks the law at times: drive 3 km/h too fast to catch the green light, consume illegal drugs, feed the homeless, download from a torrent, create street art, take home a pen from work, hack a website. And the suspicion may come from following "Edward Snowden" on Twitter, or posting on HackerNews about malware, or being the Facebook nephew/schoolmate of a drug dealing suspect, or walking past a smart billboard in a Che Guevara t-shirt. The Chinese Social Credit system pales in comparison to a society that is too afraid to use its free speech, too afraid to associate with like-minded people, and too afraid to participate in a political movement that is ahead of its time (such as the Civil Rights Movement), because an AI with the power of over 9000 cops is watching your every move outside of the bedroom (if curtains closed. and public internet cut off. and not transmitting "public is public" heat waves). Right now, the police is tasking commercial companies to map Facebook friend connections into networks and passes this on to social workers, so they can confront particular youth if they start hanging out with non-motivated teenagers who hang on the street all day. All is meant well, but this gives me the creeps. We did not have to deal with this in the 90s, but we also hung out on the street or, god forbid, on a skateboard. Let's keep Privacy alive for a few more years, legal and regulations move slowly. Read up on FBI vs. civil rights movement 50 years ago, and ask yourself, has technology or the Justice system of the US moved faster? "Public content is public" combined with a tremendous rise in AI technology seems like a recipe for a disasterous dystopia. Or is that the plot of Demolition Man?