[tslug]

We're on a progression curve, right? Privacy is melting away over time with more sensors and advances in big data analysis techniques. We'll never get to where everything is 100% transparent. Too many photons.

But I believe we're already at the point that privacy is effectively gone. It's just a question now of whether the people who have the information is only the big corporations, big governments, the best hackers, and/or whoever paid for it, or whether we want to pull this privacy band-aid off and just disarm their power in the first place by broadcasting the information and changing our behaviour and rules on the back-end of what our responsibility is to others with the information we have on them.

If you broadcast everything, then if some people are dicks, you see that, too, right? And if we still get to be judged by a jury of our peers (hope-hope), then with any luck, there are enough nice people out there to say, "Yup, dick move. Stop that."

Privacy is just an eggshell defense. When/if it's breached, that's that. The dicks win. We currently have so little recourse, because it's so badly asymmetric. The dicks now have the information and proceed to hurt you with it, but you don't necessarily have the information showing them hurting you.

[type0]

> If you broadcast everything, then if some people are dicks, you see that, too, right?

There are 3 kinds of people: https://youtu.be/sEJ7l0kfDic?t=39

[scalio]

What you want is people to take responsibility for their actions. That's not gonna happen anytime soon.

[tslug]

I'm no less skeptical than you as to our natural inclinations, but I do think it helps people be more respectful of others when they know the world is watching.

They've seen this with police officers wearing body cameras. They receive 93% fewer complaints. That's a profound difference.

[scalio]

Might work for a while until enough incidents pass unnoticed (which will happen given the mass). The police is a very specific group of people that's already under massive scrutiny.