Yesterday I was caught naked to the camera. There was nothing sexual or even exciting about it. I was in a public sauna with a girlfriend, naked as is appropriate sauna culture, and found myself in the surveillance cameras in the sauna complex. The concept of privacy is definitely changing. But how?
There are more areas where you can take Big Brother is not looking. It used to be that you could assume governments will not seek to you naked in your house, but we now know that they are happy to do so, and even recording nude video chats. There was not even much of a public contempt that the government's spy agencies were bare save you in cats.
He also used to be that you could at least have bodily functions to yourself as you would be free from prying eyes when you visited the toilet. Wrong again, totally wrong: there were surveillance cameras in public toilets for at least a decade. When a famous artist was caught snorting coke in the toilets in 06, the Swedish Aftonbladet even tabloid published pictures of monitoring the bathroom.
At the time, most people were wondering why this person has been taking drugs, as evidenced by the camera images. It seemed that I was the only person wondering what the hell a surveillance camera recording was done in the bathroom.
There are some things to take away from these developments.
First, the cameras are not going away. We can regulate what the government can do with the monitoring data (and we're not being very successful at it right now, to be honest), but some gadgets are just here to stay. Small cameras are ubiquitous such an article. We have cameras in glasses and cameras in Contacts or similar hidden does not seem more than a decade on. In short, we can expect to be saved, always , although mostly by individuals whose paths we are going through at random.
Second, the net production has a different set attitude toward the human body and privacy. It used to be that the images of naked people were something special. Yeah, not so much. Privacy seems to evolve to protect you he and own , that you think and communicate . Recorded video of me working show nothing subversive at all - it will just show a guy sitting at a desk with a computer manyscreened. But if you were to have access to what I'm working on, the image of me changed radically.
Third, the government has yet to be chosen. The laws surrounding the cameras were developed at a time when it was assumed that no one could get a power advantage continues taking the photo at any time. But when the actors of society suddenly get the ability to take pictures everywhere, all the time , it changes the dynamics of the dramatic power. The laws, as written, do not take such an ability into account. At present, governments are experimenting with surveillance drones that can literally watch over an entire city, followed by each individual movement. We can not realistically prevent ordinary people wore cameras - if the technology is there, the cat is out of the bag. - But we can and need to restrict the use of government surveillance
After all, ordinary people don 't you really feel for doing something as mundane as, for example, smoking grass. The government, however, can put you in jail for years and years for (and did so many times in recent decades). In addition, it records and stores everything to eventually be used against you at a later date
I think it's one of the scariest things about current monitoring trends :. Not that anyone is seen naked, but that everything everyone says and thinks is recorded - .. and it can and will be used against them, decades from now, when the laws and values have changed
Privacy remains your own responsibility
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