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by Polylactic_acid 2341 days ago
Our existing laws and ideas of privacy were build based on the limitations of the current tech. Yes you could take a photo of a random person in public but it wasn't very useful or harmful to do so. Now we have supercharged spyware tech we have the ability to cause a lot of harm without being in violation of any existing laws because such a thing simply wasn't possible previously.
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Citation needed. Current laws predate the invention of such fundamental technology as the camera, never mind video recording.