All of these "radical transparency" and "radical honesty" practices are just justifications for being lackadaisical about the nuances of human relations.
Within 15 years we will probably wear a necklace or other device that will record [at least the audio] of our entire lives. This will have a number of positive benefits (memory augmentation, etc.) but also as train data for AI.
Some people will. Others will refuse, and very likely refuse to interact with people with such devices. The "gargoyles" of Snow Crash (people living their lives with full recording devices on them at all times to upload to the metaverse) were not well liked.
And lest we forget more recent history, the term "Glassholes" came into existence to refer similarly to people with "I don't know if their camera/mic on their face is recording me or not!" devices on their heads.
> We live in a unique moment in time. Cameras are everywhere, and we can see them. Previously, they were not there. In the future, we will not be able to see them.
Norms do shift. I remember the fuss over GMail "reading" your mail.
Today we already have dashcams, bodycams, security cameras, and doorbell cameras recording a lot of spaces previously presumed to be unmonitored. Another 10 years and continuous recording will be commonplace.
That was during the same years when SOPA/PIPA inspired half the companies on the internet to go black in protest, the same companies which now fold over in response to authoritarian demands from governments. We now live in a very different world than that one.
Nothing IMO. They can look at the company's actions. There's no need to invade the privacy of individual employees.
If they were trying to confiscate my personal mobile that I use for work I will never go along with that.
Luckily I live in Europe where the atmosphere is far less litigious.
That is a good reason never to use your personal mobile for work! If you really need a phone to do your job, your employer should be paying for it anyway.
People look at me like I have two heads when I tell them that my work devices are for work things and personal devices are for personal things.
There are very rare exceptions to this rule.
Not if your name is Google Inc.
> Nothing IMO. They can look at the company's actions. There's no need to invade the privacy of individual employees.
This refers to employees communicating in a work setting not personal communications. Not saying there should be cameras in the bathroom but if you’re talking to coworkers on an @google email about work… it feels hard to justify saying it’s private.
Employers try to push that as far as they can get away with, so there are current examples of employees being treated worse than cattle that should be illegal and probably is, but that is just employers overreaching and getting away with it because of the usual power discrepency.
And my point with all that is the rest of us have no right to anything the employer has no right to.
This would work if we could punish wrongdoing regardless of intent, a standard probably reasonable against companies (they should know better after all). But this is not how it usually goes: Usually incompetence has to be ruled out and criminal intent has to be proven.
Or we could do the opposite and have corporate whistleblowers like the boeing ones mysteriously die off while everyone just makes jokes about it.
Would humanity be better off? Or are people stupider when they are thinking out loud in front of recording devices?
How much do the lawyers deserve to know?