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by wolverine876
994 days ago
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> More information never hurts. How do you reach that conclusion? > this would be "society filming society" It would also be a corporation filming private citizens on a very large scale (and government can obtain data from corporations). > If someone needs the fear of being recorded, and put online and losing their job to not act like asshole, then so be it. People are attacked and shamed for many things that are private or harmless or even good things. |
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Because the hypothetical damage a bad member of society could do outweighs the potential risk of private life details leaking (and any effect resulting from this) for good members of society.
Say you live in a neighborhood with 50 people, and nobody knows anything about each other. Then one day, a hacker comes in an publishes a lot of private details about every single resident - grocery shopping lists, movie preferences, political leanings, website search history, even private videos and photos. However, it turns out that one of the residents is a serial rapist, while another one deals drugs. Getting information on those two is extremely valuable to the neighborhood, even if it came at a price of reduced privacy.
>It would also be a corporation filming private citizens on a very large scale (and government can obtain data from corporations).
I get the whole "government bad" liberterian sentiment, but this never really plays out in reality. I mean, lived 4 years under a literal fascist and came out largely ok. There is enough due process in place and good people in the government to avoid misuse of power on a wide scale. Furthermore, the government is a combination of incompetency and not enough man power for the average citizen to worry about.
As for corporations, most people are ok with data being collected about them and used for things like advertising, because they still continue to use the products and apps, because the value add of those is worth more than privacy (which many people don't even understand what it is).