That's called "Little Brother"; we (for
various forms of "we") have talked about it a lot. The difference
now is that it is doable in a wide range of circumstances due to
bandwidth, storage, compression, cameras, and AI filtering, plus
possible IoT, etc. integration. For a completely neutral example
of real reality shows:
http://explore.org/ But beware, you may
become hooked.
I think it could be good, especially in certain areas. You could
have graduations of privacy where when enough people have declared
something as needing public attention, it is opened to all,
replicated, etc. The flip side is that if something should be
private and the only interest is prurient or bullying, then enough
veto votes should be able to shut it down and excise the memory of
something. Like Google blurring faces in Street View. Voting on
the right/wrong side of history perhaps affects your karma score,
weighting future votes, modulo fog of war discount. Conversely,
at certain types of events, like a concert or parade, marathons,
etc. the default could be public as people could then have
memories, virtual selfies, etc.
Legally, in the US at least, whenever you are viewable from
publicly accessible land, it is legal to photograph or video you.
(But not always to capture audio...) There are few restrictions,
some quirky: You can be photographed through your house window,
but not by a zoom lens. (I.e. only by a lens with a view similar
to your eyesight.)
The problems in managing this securely, fairly, and while
supporting valid societal interests without trampling anyone are
very similar to the problems in creating a secure distributed
communication overlay network without enabling unfettered
terrorist use.
On 9/21/16 10:01 AM,
xorcist@sigaint.org wrote:
I'd like to bounce an idea around. At the outset, I'm going to say that I
don't really like the idea. Like getting a root canal, I'd rather not have
a some guy drilling around in my jaw, but what can you do?
Some years back, maybe 8 years ago now, prior to the Snowden revelations,
a Kiwi buddy and I were discussing the arising surveillance state.
I ventured the idea that the only way to combat it, is for citizens to put
web cams in their windows, in their cars, have body cams.. whatever.. and
have a distributed system where we can live stream that stuff up. Open
source surveillance, if you will.
The idea scared the hell out of him, and rightly so. My take on
surveillance tech is that it is like nukes. The only viable strategy is
deterrence. The genie is out of the bottle, the tech isn't going anywhere,
and so if we're going to preserve freedom, the technology needs to be
under our control.
Open source surveillance is a monster, but its a monster that would bite
police and agents of the state as easily as us. Rather than the
government/media being able to selectively pick-and-choose which camera
angles, and which clips to release, we'd have to ability to check, and
disprove.
I don't like what it means, in terms of enabling stalkers, but perhaps
that is mitigated by the ability to catch those fucks on camera?
I'd love to hear reactions and thoughts on this. It's not something you're
going to catch me truly arguing for, its really more of a devil's advocate
type thing.. like I say, I just see it mostly as a fucked strategy for
dealing with a fucked situation.