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Isn't it better to work on having a government you can trust rather than fooling yourself by building a castle made of sand in the path of an incoming tide?
by happyscrappy 11y ago
Isn't it better to work on having a government you can trust rather than fooling yourself by building a castle made of sand in the path of an incoming tide?
- cracell 11y agoWhy not both? We should retain the right to conceal our identity in reasonable ways and governments should enact laws that protect their citizens privacy from biometric recognition technologies.
- happyscrappy 11y ago>Why not both? Reality. Information leaks all over the place, trying to legislate your way to privacy is like trying to bail out a boat with a fishing net. Public information is by definition public, so we could all walk around with wide brimmed hats and masks or we could be realistic about the challenges ahead.
- cracell 11y agoWhat? With that attitude do you not believe in regulating anything? No laws are perfect but that's not a valid argument against having them. There's a big difference in a company legally operating a facial tracking system and a company illegally operating one. In the case of the illegal one they have to hide it, it's much harder to profit from and thus would be less widespread. In the case of the legal one they can freely advertise their services and easily setup their system anywhere that local governments don't create hurdles.
- happyscrappy 11y agoYou can make all the foolish laws you like and there will still be data and cameras everywhere in public places. Where the data comes from is irrelevant, it will be available. Edit: Are you going to ban cameras in public places? Facebook? Cellphones? Satellites?
- pavel_lishin 11y agoA government I can trust can get voted out of office tomorrow.
- happyscrappy 11y agoTrue. Also one man's trusted gov is another's opposition. Accountability would have been a better word.
- mordocai 11y agoDue to the very nature of government, I don't believe it is possible to have a government that I completely trust. There are different degrees of trust though, and I would like one with a higher degree of trust earned.
- the_ancient 11y agoYour fooling yourself if you think you can ever trust government....
- boling11 11y agoWhat does that even look like? It seems like a stretch to believe that we can create a government that we'll always be able to trust.