[Sagat]

You would want to be filmed at all times, and have that footage available to everyone? That's insane and I suggest reading Dave Egger's "The Circle".

[bloat]

That seems like a natural progression, technologically speaking. Millions of microscopic camera drones everywhere.

The only thing to hope for in that case is that the footage is available to everyone, and that the powerful are filmed as much as anyone else.

[miguelrochefort]

I'm glad to see that some people still use their common sense.

You are exactly right. This is what we should strive for, this is what the future will be like.

Too many people think that privacy is inherently good, but they fail to see how unsustainable and selfish it is. Knowledge is good, and trying to keep it for yourself slows down innovation.

The future will be transparent, and people of the future will laugh at how ridiculous we were for worshipping privacy.

Fighting for privacy is stupid. What we should really fight for is transparency. And transparency can only be achieved by leaking all the data, both from citizens and people on the top. WikiLeaks is a good start, but thinking that transparency only apply to the government and corporations is silly. The same thing should be done to all of us.

I never could understoud why people that support WikiLeaks are those who support privacy the most. What is even more surprising is that these people, that are inherently selfish, think they're some kinds of socialists and fool everybody else in thinking they're some kind of heros.

Humans are weird.

[Sagat]

That's what scared me the most about that book: it's so plausible it's almost inevitable.

Maybe in the future, true power will be the ability to escape monitoring?

[miguelrochefort]

Of course. In the future, we will have to pay for this kind of service. Consider yourself lucky that third-party want to pay you to collect data about you.