[extropy-chat] Many eyes

[Samantha Atkins]

Apologies for typos.  Time for bed.

On Jul 11, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Samantha Atkins wrote:

>
> On Jul 10, 2005, at 5:58 PM, 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 have to hide anything that the powers that be decide to make a  
> crime that real should never have been one.  I have to
real -> really
>  be able to hide as long as some people wish to legally run  
> everyone else's life.  I have to hide if I am not a perfect shmoo  
> or perfectly willing be targeted by one of thousands of laws that  
> exist for no other purpose at some politician or cop's  
> discretion.   Lastly I have a need to be able to hide as long as  
> the government is the biggest danger to life and liberty.   How  
> would you propose to have a chance to change or at least avoid a  
> turly corrupt and non-
turly-> truly
> responsive government or to avoid their clutches somewhat with on  
> privacy whatsoever?

on -> no

> Really people, please think it through before you propose that Big  
> Brother knows all.  What do I have to hide?  Wrong question.  What  
> gives you and the government the right to stick your nose into  
> every aspect of my life?
>
> - samantha
>
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