I mean, people use dash-cams protect themselves in case of a car crash, so do you think people in the future would also use body-cams protect themselves in case of being involved in a fight?
A hackspace I am in contact with had an… interesting debate on this topic.
Member A used a wearable video recording system. His view was that it was fixing a disability (his poor memory) in the same manner as someone wearing glasses, or a hearing aid.
Member B was a privacy advocate. He had STRONG views on his right to not be photographed or recorded, without his permission.
These 2 members did not see eye to eye. Both had a valid view , but diametrically opposed. Normally, it wouldn’t be too bad. Unfortunately, both were on the governing committee! Apparently even trying to arrange how to run the meetings to discuss it was getting problematic!
In the USA, in a public space, Member B doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on. You have no right to privacy in a public space.
This wasn’t in America, it was a private group. Also both peoples had had their views respected, at different times. It was the collision of rights that caused fun.
Privacy advocates are quite common in hackspaces. They generally have their requests respected. The rule of thumb is to check before taking pictures of someone else, or their projects. Most don’t have an issue, but a few might want to limit some things.
I feel the more likely scenario is for public surveillance to reach a point where everyone outside their home (or near a window) is being recorded from multiple sources.
Yes, because AI assistants are going to get too good to not use. And they are going to be made infinitely more powerful by being able to see and hear everything around you.
After the backlash that was created by Google Glass and the clusterfucks that other hip consumer-oriented wearable cameras (like Snap’s Spectacles, Ray Ban’s and Bose’s glasses) have been, I don’t expect this to happen.
It’s much more likely that CCTV will be so pervavise that we’re unlikely to have any expectation of privacy whatsoever, once in public and that governments and the private sector will have access to most of it.
If they don’t already. Probably more of to what degree at this point.
This reminds me oft the book “the circle”
Hmmm, “as common” is subjective. Where I was from, dashcams weren’t allowed.
What country doesn’t allow dash-cams? How do you even deal with a he-said she-said situation in a car crash?
Western Europe has a couple. Either way, I wanted one but got a lawyer telling me I’m better off not getting it, because I’d only ever be able to hand footage off for insurance and I’d better hope the incident was in private property.
