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>Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, fe
by nonethewiser 1y ago
>Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me.
Why?
I dont ask this dismissively. Im not suggesting he's unjustified. That's just the interesting question to me and the author doesnt explore it. I believe this feeling is a new trend.
I dont think people had these qualms, say, 20 years ago. The world was a very different place back then. At the end of the day I suppose it's because 20 years ago, even with a totally permissive policy, you'd never expect footage of you to reach any significant amount of people. It would rarely happen and when it did there wouldnt be a huge audience to share it with.
But does it go beyond that? Would people have cared even if it did reach a wide audience? Is it possible people seek more privacy and control over their image than before? And not just as a reaction to how global everything is because of the internet? Gen Z being afraid of answering phone calls, etc.
This strikes me as similar to the attitude towards phone number privacy. People used to publicly share their phone numbers by default. You were included in the phone book unless you specially requested not to be. Now it feels invasive for parties to ask you for it, even when they have some plausible reason.
- baobun 1y agoWhat changed? Awareness and prevalence of dragnets, AI, surveillance economy.
- xboxnolifes 1y agoSocial media is why. 20 years ago social media was not what it is today. The dynamics have changed.
- rkomorn 1y agoFor me, the "why" is a mix of: 1- ubiquity: now, virtually everyone's got a device capable of capturing high quality photo/video of you at any time 2- discoverability: social media gives anything the potential to go viral which might put you in the spotlight or limelight, and the frequency at which things can go viral "enough" is way higher (more platforms, larger follower counts, etc) (this is I assume what you meant by "reach") 3- "content creators" are everywhere: people want to turn anything into something, through all kinds of incentives that were unavailable 20 years ago, so it's a much more active "capture and use it" context Things just aren't the same as they were 20 years ago.
- nonethewiser 1y agoso basically just the amount of people that will see it. that was my initial reaction as well. i feel like there is also the fact that those people now have more tools to trace the video back to you personally. Like they could potentially take some action that impacts your life. Probably not a concern with being a masked person in an airsoft game though.