[extropy-chat] Many eyes

[Dan Clemmensen]

Joseph Bloch wrote:

> David Brin, who has written on the subject of the changing 
> (disappearing) notion of privacy, covered this explicitly in his novel 
> "Earth".
>
> He posits a future in which private surveilance (by cameras embedded 
> in sunglasses, which transmit in realtime to secure data archives) 
> causes a drastic drop in violent crime. If every potential mugging 
> victim is recording everything he sees, muggers become a lot less 
> numerous.
>
> The classic response to questions of "what happened to my right to 
> privacy?" in Brin's world, is "What do you have to hide?"
>
I discussed "The Transparent society" with Brin at the Foresight fellows 
conference in 1998, the year it was published.  I'm even enough of a 
fanboy that I got him to autograph my copy :-)

My proposal here is that we should put Brin's theory/observation into 
practice. We can do this without any new infrastructure. A large enough 
percentage of the population is now carrying cameras: we just need to 
use them.