alt Hacker NewsI have similar, albeit probably more radical, views.
All dragnet surveillance done by law enforcement or given to law enforcement by private entities should be public. (Targeted surveillance by law enforcement is a different thing.)
We should all be able to "profit" from this data collected about us. There are likely a ton of interesting applications that could come from this data.
I would much rather independently run a "track my stalker" application myself versus relying on law enforcement (who have no duty to protect the public in the US, per SCOTUS) to "protect" me, for example.
It might be that such a panopticon would be unpalatable to political leaders and, ideally, we'd see some action to tamp down the use of dragnet surveillance (and maybe even make it illegal).
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> All dragnet surveillance done by law enforcement or given to law enforcement by private entities should be public
You can FOIA the cameras outside your local police station today, if you like. Private company data like Flock's is the new grey area.
You may want to check out David Brin's work, he covers the implications of this idea extensively in The Transparent Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
I found it really interesting he frames privacy, surveillance, and power through the lens of information asymmetries.