Re:Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos
by shadowgovt on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:55PM
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Mass-gathering and privatization, I think.
If you try to outlaw mass-gathering alone, you're gonna have a bad time. "The Transparent Society" gives a good argument for why that's trying to put a genie back in a bottle (i.e. it would trade out the power asymmetry you're describing for the same power asymmetry exploited by different groups).
Better to kill the real estate data asymmetry advantage by having the government collate and publish that data on everyone's behalf than by trying to make it illegal.
If you try to outlaw mass-gathering alone, you're gonna have a bad time. "The Transparent Society" gives a good argument for why that's trying to put a genie back in a bottle (i.e. it would trade out the power asymmetry you're describing for the same power asymmetry exploited by different groups).
Better to kill the real estate data asymmetry advantage by having the government collate and publish that data on everyone's behalf than by trying to make it illegal.