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

[efc at disroot.org]

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

> On Fri, 27 Sept 2024 at 20:37, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
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>
> As Adrian mentioned, it could be useful for protection. As a deterrent
> to anyone approaching you to snatch your Rolex watch. It would also be

Is this a common problem in the US? This is an honest question. I've had 
my run ins with mainly arabian robbers and assailants, but nothing serious 
ever happened and I managed to defend myself. _Despite_ probably having 
experienced way more violence than the average sweden, I would not even 
dream of walking around with a camera. It would not solve anything, and 
given the level of intelligence of the people involved in this incident, 
as well as laws against filming in public, I don't think it would work.

So is this such a common scenario in the US and would it be effective?

> evidence if any incident happens, to avoid the 'he said - she said'
> disputes. The video would be a support for your side in car accidents
> and is why insurance companies like them.
> (It also makes you a more careful driver, as you want the camera to
> support your version of the incident).

Again, looking at the nr of incidents I've had, and how well it worked out 
without a camera, I don't see any real benefit.

> I also see it as a general deterrent to misbehaviour. Anyone could be
> recorded at any time by anyone nearby.
> Just think how behaviour will change when anything you say or do could
> be displayed on the internet for the world to be offended by and make you
> into a non-person.
> Total surveillance should make humanity much better behaved.

Would you like to live your life with total surveillance and no privacy? I 
would definitely not, and would probably move out to a remote forest in 
case that became a reality.

Also looking at the world, with the level of surveillance we have at our 
disposal today, it rather seems like the more surveillance and government 
control we have, the worse it gets.

But horses for courses. ;)


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