[Dylovell]

After learning that someone can get your cardiograph with a laser from 100 ft away, I believe the adversarial fight with privacy won't help us nearly as much as fighting for legislation.

Although I do think, as an american, we should rework the second amendment to include things like encryption. And change the 3rd amendment to privacy protection. I'm a little more worried about the people in my devices, than I am housing enemy soldiers at the moment.

[nonameiguess]

The problem is this isn't even about privacy. Courts have always held that you have no right to privacy as soon as you step outside and that is never going to change. News broadcasts and most film making would become impossible if they needed the consent of all people who might incidentally make their way into a frame by walking in front of a camera. And if you go into someone else's business, there's usually a sign right out front telling you that by stepping inside you consent to them monitoring and recording everything you do. The only reason this never used to scare people is there was no practical and scalable way to collate all of these sources of public data into a usable profile that could identify and locate an arbitrary person.

Well, now there is.

How do you fight it? I don't think you can. The obvious answer is don't commit crimes and nobody is going to care enough to try and find you. Unfortunately, law enforcement has never proven particularly trustworthy about only going after actual criminals, so that answer doesn't generalize, but the vast majority of people are very unlikely to ever find themselves the victim of political persecution. What do we do for those who are?

Right to encryption and constitutional amendments for privacy are great and all, but that still means absolutely nothing for a case like this. This technology relied entirely on public data. You're never going to have the right to not be photographed when you go out in public. The paparazzi literally killed a member of the royal family doing this and suffered no consequences for it.

[Ninjinka]

You sacrifice too much even if you could attain privacy through your own effort (which I very much doubt). Without laws to protect citizens, privacy is a pipe-dream simply because people aren't willing to give up what comes with giving up their privacy.