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"It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse." What? Who has an expectation of privacy 'even i
by sparrish 2y ago
"It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse."
What? Who has an expectation of privacy 'even in public spaces'? You're in public with a serialized mode of transportation (license plate) that requires a state-issued license to operate. Why would you expect 'privacy' in public?
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThere is an expectation you won't be subjected to invasive surveillance by default. Cameras that went to a local video recorder and only checked after an incident are way different than routing that video into a 24/7 panopticon that logs a behavioral profile of everyone.
- rangestransform 2y agowhen katz v. USA was decided, government needed to talk to witnesses or surreptitiously follow suspects to gather information. even taking pictures was massively less scalable back then. I would say that policing should never become more scalable with technology, the tools police have to gather information should be as difficult and unscalable to use as they were when katz v. USA was decided.
- kelnos 2y agoI think the author meant we have (had?) an expectation of anonymity in public spaces. Certainly people you know could recognize you, but indiscriminate mass tracking wasn't a thing.
- sparrish 2y agoI think you may be right. Anonymity is fundamentally different from privacy though and it's a large error to conflate the two.