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our "choice" is between a world in which no one has privacy, or in which only special entities of some sort do. No, no matter how widespread access to surveill
by Amadou 13y ago
our "choice" is between a world in which no one has privacy, or in which only special entities of some sort do.
No, no matter how widespread access to surveillance information becomes, the powerful will still be able to keep privacy for themselves. Don't want to be tracked while you go shopping? Hire someone to do it for you and let all of their actions get fed into Big Data.
- lorenzaccio 13y agoMah, and who these 'the powerful' would be? Even Steve Jobs had to go to Switzerland to have some form of health privacy.
- apalmer 13y agoI think your kind of making the exact point your trying to argue against.
- pessimizer 13y agos/your/you're/g you're == you are upvoted:)
- lorenzaccio 13y agoIt's about policy not power. Location location location.
- rz2k 13y agoNo doubt people with more influence will be able to limit the repercussions of actions that would ruin others, yet pretty much anyone who has influence is bound to want to use it, and by its nature anything that is disruptive is likely to upset yet some other person who has influence. Take for example David Petraeus. His career may have been only collateral damage of an investigation that took advantage of records of drafts and IP addresses used to log into gmail. He may have felt sincerely honor bound to resign, and his career may resurrect itself, especially if his party is about to nominate some of its most crazy for the presidential election. However, it is at least possible to imagine that people who were happy to see him lose influence wouldn't have been eager to stick out their own necks to sweep everything under the rug. I think there are at least a couple broad categories of people who have different relationships with power and surveillance. You can be wealthy, enjoying your wealth and no threat to anyone else with influence, or you may be someone who has the resources to effect the change you think the world needs. Once upon a time monarchs put aside their differences in attempts to hunt down regicides, but on other days they occupied themselves with trying to conquer each others' realms.