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That’s probably legally true in the US, but is that the best we can do? It’s valid to question the value of laws. Sometimes I wish I did have more privacy in p
by bckygldstn 4y ago
That’s probably legally true in the US, but is that the best we can do?
It’s valid to question the value of laws. Sometimes I wish I did have more privacy in public.
But more importantly, technology has completely changed what non-privacy looks like and is tragic to me that laws haven’t caught up.
There’s a huge practical difference between “someone within 100ft, probably a neighbour who I know, might hear me and probably instantly forget what I said, but 99% of the time no one is there” and “100% of your conversations are recorded, transcribed, and stored forever by a profit-maximising behemoth with various other unavoidable tentacles into my life, and also they might sell or give that data to other companies also the police”.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoThis is a similar problem with data brokers... yes my records are public, but for most of history that meant going down to city hall and putting forth effort... should the law around public records be different when data brokers vacuum up all that public data and resell it digitally? We've lost many practical barriers to privacy.