alt Hacker NewsThat wasn't the statement I was replying to, though?
Please re-read the thread, without injecting your own pre-conceived notions into it? The statement was simply this:
"Because my business is my business and nobody else's. Full stop."
When it comes to being in public or at a grocery store, this is simply untrue. Being in public involves interacting with other people, at which point it inherently ceases to be just your business, and starts to be others', too.
That entitles them to some amount of say in it, however small it might be, depending on the context.
No where did I say anything about the degree of surveillance?
I did inject my preconceived notion into it. You are correct.
Because usually, when someone says "my business is my business", they don't mean "no one has the right to look at me when I'm out in public". That kind of statement about my business being mine in public, is usually tied to tracking and/or persistent, shareable surveillance video.