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I think people's freedoms and rights are going to live on through social and legal regulation, not banning or countering surveillance technology itself. E.g. w
by mindfulhack 7y ago
I think people's freedoms and rights are going to live on through social and legal regulation, not banning or countering surveillance technology itself.
E.g. with an existing technology known as firearms, it's not socially 'OK' or legal to just go up and randomly shoot someone with such technology, but technically you could do it, if you really wanted. There's consequences to it though.
So we need consequences for violating people's privacy or using their information in a way that is abusive or unfair to their human rights.
Radical transparency of disclosure such as what insurance companies know about you that they feed into their business will have to be legally mandated. (How about an open-source algorithm too?) We will need new frameworks by which data collected on you and used against you MUST be disclosed, because otherwise it could be total abuse and fake. We know China is already in that territory.
The world of deepfakes is going to make 'deniability' a major opposing force of surveillance as well.
We have an interesting future ahead of us.
- mesofile 7y agoWhat would be great is if judiciaries only treated video as admissible if it was cryptographically watermarked in tandem with a globally distributed blockchain-style rolling checksum, to resist tampering (deepfakes or just plain old timecode manipulation). Combine that with a licensing scheme, as a condition of using the global checksum service, that guaranteed by law access to video by any party captured on said video — i.e. scenes & events in public areas would be required to be made available to members of the public, on request; or video of private areas would still have to be shared with any subjects that it captured, if it were to be introduced as evidence.
- Ajedi32 7y agoTimestamping doesn't prevent fakes, it just means you have to create the fakes ahead of time instead of being able to generate them retroactively.