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Originally Posted by LessinSF
Me too, but my personal world view has always started and ended with distrusting anyone who thought they could tell me what to do by threat instead of logic. Combine that with thousands of years of history where the "protectors" were actually just bouncers, and I have forever been a prosecutor's worst juror. I assume the cop is a corrupt, lying thug. Maybe necessary to control; a criminal sub-element, but I don't know, given that we have never tried the alternative.
Cameras are increasingly proving this. I love that. But cameras are still noticeable. A corneal camera implant is not far away - any person could be a walking, talking, unnoticeable video recorder. Privacy and secrecy are soon to be very precious commodities. You wont be able to record your private thoughts because even your personal device was compromised before sale by the US government, and there will be universal public monitoring by public and private cameras (and infrared monitoring of your heartbeat ans respiration to detect if you are lying).
And that is only just a bit of what I know about or can imagine. We all have shame behind our faces, and I am not sure our society is ready for universal openness or the only alternative of hiding all one's quirks, interests, predilections, fetishes, and/or desires entirely in one's head without outlet.
I will likely be dead before this all plays out. And I am glad.
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I share the love for what these phone cameras are capturing in terms of police abuse. I also love Snowden, and Wikileaks. Putting the powerful and corrupt under the bright lights is one of the few righteous acts that also happens to be entertaining. (No, a cop killing on camera is not fun to watch... But the police scrambling to make up bullshit defenses is quite satisfying.)
Putting everybody under those bright lights, otoh, is disturbing. The average guy who's not making himself a public figure deserves better than to have his data published to third parties because some aspie like Zuckerberg thinks we should all be so transparent.
But then again-- maybe radical transparency is a good thing. The sooner we all admit to having vices, strange tastes, and views contra the status quo, the sooner the Puritans who control our political system will lose control.
