[hutzlibu]

"publish it all, and then have all the neighbours have access to that, the wife can see when you left the bar, your boss can see when you left, etc... only then will people be aware that it's not ok to do that."

If really everyone would participate, I would give it a try. Would disrupt a lot, but might end up with a honest society. But in reality, if you have money, you can circumvent tracking, in varius ways.

I believe it is also being done with planes today? People flying planes they control, even if they do not directly own it, so can not so easily be tracked.

So no, it is not ok, as it further increases the power imbalance. But with self driving cars and more and more sensors and safety regulations, it will likely come anyway.

[anders_p]

> If really everyone would participate, I would give it a try. Would disrupt a lot, but might end up with a honest society.

Do you really want your health insurance company to know that you parked outside a doctor's office, who specializes in skin cancers? You just went for a check-up, but they might want to increase your payments or even cancel your coverage entirely.

Then good luck finding another insurance provider, since they all have that information now.

Or how about all future potential employers knowing that you once visited a union office?

There are so many cases, where people "who have nothing to hide" can't imagine where this could bite them in the future.

You (or your wife/daughter/girlfriend/secretary, etc.) visit a Planned Parenthood? Everyone - including your pastor - now has that info.

You go to a job interview at a competitor? Your boss now knows that.

We have no idea who or what groups who might want to snoop in where we park our cars.

The possibilities for abuse are endless. And as always, we have no way of predicting what use-cases unethical individuals will come up with as these things roll out.

[aierou]

Bad actors already have access to the data, right? Would it not be better to legalize/regulate it? I'm not convinced that we can put the genie back into the bottle.

[spiderice]

> If really everyone would participate, I would give it a try

This isn't something you get to just temporality "try". Once it's a thing, it will always be a thing. No way is the government letting that one slip through their fingers.

Also, I'm envisioning a world where people are getting their retinas altered minority report style to avoid this.