I have no problem with people recording me. Frankly, we should be doing more Sousveillance, as governments and corporate footage has a terrible track record of mysteriously disappearing whenever it’s convenient to them. But that’s not it. This is yet another corporation using peoples faces as camera mounting points. Fuck them. If you need a spycam for some reason, be a normal creep human being, and buy them off aliexpress or something
I have no problem with security cameras either. Asshole like Elon make a car with cameras, and suddenly the GDPR doesn’t apply and judges switch to issuing subpoenas to their owners in case they might have caught a nearby crime instead of issuing fines.
Having some decent surveillance that you aren’t an asshole with (hint: if you are using to track and profile people and you are the sort of person who likes to doxx, you probably are) brings ease of mind. You no longer have to suppose who or when some crime might have been committed, and even if it’s not useful for catching them they can effectively help you make your prevention more effective. If governments cared about our security, they would just make sure they had no backdoors or mass surveillance capabilities, they would at least allow for personal, localized usage for our property a lot more.
Didn’t know about the term sousveillance, that’s awesome because that’s what I’ve been arguing for all along.
I have no problem with people recording me. Frankly, we should be doing more Sousveillance, as governments and corporate footage has a terrible track record of mysteriously disappearing whenever it’s convenient to them. But that’s not it. This is yet another corporation using peoples faces as camera mounting points. Fuck them. If you need a spycam for some reason, be a normal
creephuman being, and buy them off aliexpress or somethingSousveillance is such a good word. I learned it through an SCP story
I have no problem with security cameras either. Asshole like Elon make a car with cameras, and suddenly the GDPR doesn’t apply and judges switch to issuing subpoenas to their owners in case they might have caught a nearby crime instead of issuing fines.
Having some decent surveillance that you aren’t an asshole with (hint: if you are using to track and profile people and you are the sort of person who likes to doxx, you probably are) brings ease of mind. You no longer have to suppose who or when some crime might have been committed, and even if it’s not useful for catching them they can effectively help you make your prevention more effective. If governments cared about our security, they would just make sure they had no backdoors or mass surveillance capabilities, they would at least allow for personal, localized usage for our property a lot more.
Didn’t know about the term sousveillance, that’s awesome because that’s what I’ve been arguing for all along.