alt Hacker NewsI'm fine that others can see me. But we don't have to extend that to unlimited recording. We don't have to extend that to robots.
50 years ago you didn't have privacy walking around outside but you weren't subject to constant surveillance and tracking. The current state isn't some inevitable fact of life. It's fixable without any draconian action.
What needs to be fixed about that for a regular person, realistically?
What harm is a regular person suffering from being recorded by the security camera at Home Depot, their neighbor’s Ring doorbell, or even the TSA face recognition at the airport?
Ignoring the fact that there’s alternate-construction approaches to tracking all that (credit cards, your nosey neighbor just looking out a window, phone tracking, passenger manifests, etc), there’s just no realistic harm you incur by being tracked in those ways. If you’ve repeatedly shoplifted at the Home Depot or stole your neighbor’s Amazon package, I get it, but otherwise, what are you doing in the middle of a street that can’t be recorded forever?