Re:An entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-cr...
by pmoriarty on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:32PM
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To add to this, information is power. When you give away information about yourself, you are also giving others power over you. This power can be abused in all sorts of ways.
Furthermore, there's no guarantee that the information gathered with all of this surveillance will remain in the hands of "the good guys". In addition to abuse by corrupt or malicious police, administrators, and politicians who may legally get access to this data, the data can be leaked to or stolen by all sorts of criminals, stalkers, bullies, abusers, pedophiles, etc.
Just about every week there's a new story about a massive data leak. It seems unlikely that data collected through mass surveillance will stay out of the wrong hands forever.
How many parents would willingly broadcast to the world the path their child takes to school, their schedule, and photos of their kids. How many people would willingly allow live streaming of their family's bedrooms and bathrooms? All of this surveillance could potentially prevent or solve crime, but most people still have some sense of privacy left, and a concern about ways information about them and their loved ones could be misused -- even if they don't think about it deeply or very often.
Unless, of course, they or people they know have been victims of harassment, stalking, identity theft, and other abuses of data collected about them. In which case they probably think about it much more.
Furthermore, there's no guarantee that the information gathered with all of this surveillance will remain in the hands of "the good guys". In addition to abuse by corrupt or malicious police, administrators, and politicians who may legally get access to this data, the data can be leaked to or stolen by all sorts of criminals, stalkers, bullies, abusers, pedophiles, etc.
Just about every week there's a new story about a massive data leak. It seems unlikely that data collected through mass surveillance will stay out of the wrong hands forever.
How many parents would willingly broadcast to the world the path their child takes to school, their schedule, and photos of their kids. How many people would willingly allow live streaming of their family's bedrooms and bathrooms? All of this surveillance could potentially prevent or solve crime, but most people still have some sense of privacy left, and a concern about ways information about them and their loved ones could be misused -- even if they don't think about it deeply or very often.
Unless, of course, they or people they know have been victims of harassment, stalking, identity theft, and other abuses of data collected about them. In which case they probably think about it much more.