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I think this is a perfect example of taking for granted certain privacies. See, you never actually had privacy when you were in public. It was not a right. It
by Gunax 5y ago
I think this is a perfect example of taking for granted certain privacies.
See, you never actually had privacy when you were in public. It was not a right. It was just assumed to be a right, because no one was bothering to record where you went. It was impractical.
What we had was a false belief that--barring we were not under active FBI surveillance or something--our comings and goings were secret. But I don't think this was ever explicitly inscribed in law. This drone is just shattering that illusion.
We are going to keep having technology vanquish our illusions. Consider that Tesla could in theory have their dashcam in every car they manufacture record every license plate number it sees, with time and location. They could make this information public if they wanted to. With enough Teslas in an area, you could effectively lookup where and when every vehcile has been. And there is nothing wrong they are doing because it's not a fundamental change. In theory, they could hire a million people to drive around and record the license plates manually. It was only the impracticality it that stopped anyway.
I don't know what the solution is. We are going to have to accept that certain assumptions we had are now gone, or re-write the rules.