[ExI] In future, will everybody wear their own body cam?

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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> Surveillance cameras are everywhere nowadays in cities, cars, homes,
> phones, etc. Police and many workers also wear body cameras. They are
> popular for increased safety, crime evidence, theft reduction, and
> yes, surveillance, to keep people behaving responsibly.
>
> When AI spectacles become available in the next few years, they will
> likely have a camera recording feature.
>
> It will not be the government watching what everyone is doing. It will
> be everyone watching each other, in a constant state of surveillance.
>
> So, will everybody soon be wearing their own AI-assisted body-cam devices?
>
> BillK
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I think we are partly already there. Everyone has a smartphone, and if 
something happens out of the ordinary in town, you see plenty of people 
filming it already.

So I think it is a fun exercise to extrapolate from where we are today, 
to, as you say, the time when everyone is wearing contacts with built in 
camera, or some other iny camera hidden on your person filming and storing 
everything on your home server or your phone.

I heard that in the US, some insurance companies offer lower premiums if 
you have a camera in your car, and recently in sweden there was a case of 
the police using photos from a parked Tesla in a legal case.

>From a personal point of view... I ask myself, what would make me bother? 
Privately I dislike photos, videos, and I seldom walk around in town with 
my phone on me.

In business, everything important is done through email or contracts, so 
everything is recorded that way.

Since I am a privacy nut, I would not take the insurance company up on the 
offer.

So dear smartphone fans, what use would you have for 24x7 filming?