Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform

Re:Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform by pyre on Thursday April 09, 2015 @08:40AM (#9347074)

> relatively to all the history of humanity

I'm curious how you think that privacy is stronger now than any other time in history?

While the "small town" / "small group" effect was definitely present in the past, if you ran afoul of said group, you could always leave it (and the stigma) behind. Now the Internet allows people to inspect your history wherever you go. It becomes inescapable. This is something that has never existed in the past (aside from becoming so super-infamous that news travels between disparate groups, I guess).

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Re:Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform by pyrois on Thursday April 09, 2015 @09:26AM (#9347299)

I'm not sure how easily one could leave a small town in, say, feudal Europe. Most serfs lacked travel rights, and while one could escape from their lord's land and move to a city (depending on the country), the cost was prohibitively high[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Villeins

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Re:Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 09, 2015 @09:13AM (#9347232)

I meant the "small group" effect. I agree it's more difficult than ever to start over after you fall out with your group, but an ordinary person living ordinary, conforming life enjoys more privacy and more expectation of privacy than before.

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Re:Phone Cameras and Apps Help Speed Calls for Police Reform by 6d0debc071 on Thursday April 09, 2015 @09:33AM (#9347347)

I feel like that stigma would, to a large degree, be associated with the identity of "outsider" that you'd acquire in leaving the original group. If that group didn't want you, why would we?

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