| I suggest that a right to privacy is a mistake. It shouldn't exist. Unsustainability: It will only become more difficult to keep secrets as technology improves. Imagine cameras that can see through walls and drones the size of a fly. Unenforceability: How do you make people forget information on demand? How do you delete data from the internet? Inefficiency: We waste a lot of resources securing data. We waste a lot of resources requesting data. Allowing data to flow naturally would be more efficient. I think it's a good idea to let "everyone else see [my] bank balance[.] Personal emails[.] Personnel reviews at work[.] Letters to [my] girlfriend[.] Late night browsing habits[.] Purchase history[.] All [my] photos along with the video feed from [my] phone[.]" However, I think it would be unfair to make the life of one person transparent in a society where the social and technical expectation is to keep secrets, although I think it would be better to make everyone's lives transparent in a society where transparency is supported. I think the transition to a transparent society is inevitable. I also think that the later we prepare for the transition the more people will suffer. This is why I bring up the subject and encourage people to think about it. David Brin explains it much better in his book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society |
"If there is no privacy, there will be pressure to change. Some people will recognize that their morality isn't necessarily the morality of everyone -- and that that's okay. But others will start demanding legislative change, or using less legal and more violent means, to force others to match their idea of morality.
It's easy to imagine the more conservative (in the small-c sense, not in the sense of the named political party) among us getting enough power to make illegal what they would otherwise be forced to witness. In this way, privacy helps protect the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority."