[extropy-chat] Many eyes

[Mike Lorrey]

When plastic surgery becomes as commonplace as fast food, ubiquitous
surveillance is meaningless. Both will occur about the same time.

--- Joseph Bloch <jbloch at humanenhancement.com> 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?"
> 
> Joseph
> 
> Enhance your body "beyond well" and your mind "beyond normal": 
> http://www.humanenhancement.com
> New Jersey Transhumanist Association:
> http://www.goldenfuture.net/njta
> PostHumanity Rising: http://transhumanist.blogspot.com/ (updated
> 6/14/05)
> 
> Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> 
> > The Linux community has an aphorism:
> > "Many eyes make all bugs shallow."
> >
> > We can extend this concept to anti-terrorism. The London police are
> 
> > currently asking the public for any video records they may have of
> the 
> > time surrounding the London bombings. We need to train the public
> to 
> > immediately begin taking pictures whenever something bad happens in
> 
> > public. The basic rule should be: If you cannot think of something 
> > more useful to do, take pictures. When taking pictures, if you do
> not 
> > have and obviously important subject, then take a multi-shot
> panorama.
> >
> > If every Londoner with a cell-phone camera had taken a 10-shot 
> > panorama at the time of the bombing, we would almost certainly have
> a 
> > picture of at least one of the bombers.
> >
> > To speed the analysis, we should also add a volunteer analytic 
> > infrastructure. If every relevant Londoner made panoramic pictures,
> 
> > there would be far more pictures than police analysts could process
> 
> > quickly. But each photographer could add the pictures to a
> distributed 
> > database, and each photographer (plus innumerable volunteers) could
> do 
> > a preliminary analysis.
> >
> > Similarly, pictures from all the security cameras in London could
> be 
> > made public. This would permit volunteers to assist the police in
> the 
> > analysis.
> >
> > To increase pre-explosion coverage, the public should be encouraged
> to 
> > make random pictures in public places, more or less continuously.
> If 
> > nothing  interesting happens, most of these digital pictures will 
> > never even be stored. If something bad happens, the pictures from 
> > prior to the event would become available for analysis.
> >
> > Privacy? Sorry, These are pictures taken by individuals, in public 
> > places. There is no right to privacy in this venue.
> >
> > I live in the Washington DC area. I thought of this  concept during
> 
> > the ugly "sniper attack" situation last year.
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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