This inevitably came up back when I taught privacy and security classes. I always asked everyone with kids to raise their hands (most hands went up). Then I wo

This inevitably came up back when I taught privacy and security classes. I always asked everyone with kids to raise their hands (most hands went up). Then I would ask "don't raise your hands, but when dealing with your kids, have any of you ever acted in a way wasn't captured on camera?" I don't mean beating or physical abuse or anything that horrible, and everyone knew it. Combine young tired kids with a cranky, tired adult, and it's almost guaranteed that the adult will have had at least one rage meltdown. They probably only yelled and ranted. But they probably looked like a monster doing it. How quickly would such an image or film go viral? And how condemned would the person be? We are all foibly humans, we all have moments that we regret or that fill us with shame. And we're all glad they weren't recorded for posterity. Privacy isn't about protecting your best face, your public face. It's about protecting all of your faces, all of your moods, your knowledge, your relationships, etc. We have free speech, but do we have freedom from judgementalism? Until we do, we all need privacy.