[extropy-chat] SING: recording our lives

[Zero Powers]

It will happen sooner or later.  When it does the "Transparent
Society" http://www.davidbrin.com/tschp1.html will finally arrive. 
And I for one can't wait.

What will happen to the U.S. legal system you ask?  Probably not much.
 Of course if individuals don't have sufficient control over their
recorders to be able to turn them off while they engage in nefarious
activity, you will naturally see a sharp decrease in objectively
observable crimes (rape, robbery, murder, etc.).  But I wouldn't
expect much impact on civil litigation.  People will always find
reason to sue each other, and lawyers will be there to help them.

There will likely remain for quite some time litigatable issues of
subjective intent, and interpretation of meanings of conversations. 
For instance in most contract lawsuits there is no dispute as to the
language of the contract, because most litigated contracts are in
writing.  The litigated issues have to do with the interpretation of
contract language and its application to a given set of facts. 
Everyone having there own copy of the a recording showing the details
of a given transaction will most likely not prevent disagreement
regarding the transaction and litigation to resolve those
disagreements.

Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Freels <megaquark at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:53:04 -0500
Subject: [extropy-chat] SING: recording our lives
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>


It seems the US military has revived the idea of logging everything a
soldier sees and does in battle. I had wondered how long this would
take. I would like one of these myself!


http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64911,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html



I wonder what would happen to the legal system if everyone had a solid
copy of all of their own actions recorded. How would murder and other
crimes be affected? WOuld it really be a violation of privacy if you
had control over the information? Lots to think about here. Shouldn't
we be able to get something similar to this in the next 5 years?