Forcing those in power *not* to look back at us, and granting ourselves
greater ability to visualise power's actions, are not mutually exclusive
goals. We should be doing both, including methods to hide ourselves and
to better monitor and hold accountable those in power.
Of course, those monitoring are often punished, so necessarily the
ability to monitor *and* hide go hand in hand.
In other words I reckon the approach of fighting mass surveillance
(including acknowledging that corporations are NOT people and their
surveillance is qualitatively different from my private CCTV system) and
pushing for greater transparency, in tandem with mass-crypto and
ubiquitous sousveillance, is exactly the right thing to do..and it's
more or less what I think we're doing already globally with the
cypherpunk, pirate party, and eff-ist movements.
On 11/08/15 20:49, Sean Lynch wrote:
So what do people think of David Brin's "transparent society" approach
to this problem? We can't completely stop ourselves from being watched,
but we can make use of all this technology ourselves. Police have ALPRs
and dashcams and bodycams, but by and large they have actually resisted
expansions of their own surveillance because they want the flexibility
to be able to make up justifications after the fact. Phone cams have for
the most part taken that choice away from them. The result seems likely
to be less police abuse than at any point since at least the early 20th
century in the US.
Even Snowden's leaks were enabled by very similar technologies to what
the NSA deploys against us.
Is there any reason to believe that, overall, technology will benefit
governments more than it does individuals?
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