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I'm going to drag out another cstross quote (from Accelerando[1]): "[...] his suitcase is on its way to Mombasa, where it will probably be pithed and resurrect
by shabble 15y ago
I'm going to drag out another cstross quote (from Accelerando[1]):
"[...] his suitcase is on its way to Mombasa, where it will probably be pithed and resurrected in the service of some African cyber-Fagin. That's okay by Manfred — it only contains a statistically normal mixture of second hand clothes and toiletries, and he only carries it to convince the airline passenger-profiling expert systems that he isn't some sort of deviant or terrorist"
At what point is it going to be statistically abnormal to not be sharing the minutiae of your life in this way, and what are the consequences to anyone who wants to retain some level of privacy? Will they be required to maintain some sort of statistically-average social network profile, occasionally updating it with something plausible?
[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoThat would be terrible but I blieve it's one of those "what if everyone did x?" situations. The people who refuse to be tracked voluntarily will always be a large enough group for that kind of profiling to be ineffective. The friend spam fad will recede eventually and become one of those iconic crazy things from the past that everyone shakes their head about. Kind of like the shoe fitting x-ray device: http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/shoexray.htm http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/shoexray.htm