<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 March 2012 14:54, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
That said, I do not believe in technological determinism. Societies (and elites) can decide they do not want to have ubiqitious surveillance and take steps to prevent it.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Yes, but it is going to be an arm race, and measures to prevent surveillance are going to become ever more complicate and expensive. This is why I expect the pendulum to swing back to the "normal" state of things where in human societies privacy is the exception, not the rule.<br>
<br>In the meantime, I welcome the spreading of a security culture but not the enactment of privacy regulations which only increase informational asymmetries and social control in favour of governments in place.<br><br>-- <br>
Stefano Vaj<br>