Ubiquitous surveillance is becoming cheap and easy.
We can pass all the laws we want trying to put this genie back in the bottle. It may work, some, it might keep the law-abiding government agencies at bay (are there any)?
But anybody wanting to make a buck off of us, they won't hesitate to use it. There's money in it. You refuse to do it, well, you lose in the marketplace. Social Darwinism. Or, economic.
We have to come up with some social rules to control how we feel about it, how we are subjected to it. That could help. Like, you don't mention what you saw on a streaming microcam that drifted through your neighbor's bedroom window, because that is gauche. Some fiction of privacy. Like not mentioning what you hear through a bathroom door. It's just not polite.
That's the best scenario we can hope for, I imagine.
We can pass all the laws we want trying to put this genie back in the bottle. It may work, some, it might keep the law-abiding government agencies at bay (are there any)?
But anybody wanting to make a buck off of us, they won't hesitate to use it. There's money in it. You refuse to do it, well, you lose in the marketplace. Social Darwinism. Or, economic.
We have to come up with some social rules to control how we feel about it, how we are subjected to it. That could help. Like, you don't mention what you saw on a streaming microcam that drifted through your neighbor's bedroom window, because that is gauche. Some fiction of privacy. Like not mentioning what you hear through a bathroom door. It's just not polite.
That's the best scenario we can hope for, I imagine.