Years ago, I felt that all those security cameras actually added
to my security. But it has been creeping upon us. Not creeping, taking great
leaps. More and more surveillance technology. And technological development (the
word development used to have a positive connotation), has the tendency to find
itself serving nasty masters.
Après moi le déluge. I say, hoping that nothing too dramatic will
happen in my lifetime. The next generation needs to either revolt if that is at
all possible or accept that they are totally transparent.
An interesting question is whether we become more decent, or just more
law abiding, as we become more visible?
And then, the big what. What happens when our system changes and
we become a China? It is, by the way, not what if but what when. Information is
already being hacked by blackmailers. We will be at the mercy of private
nasties and state nasties.
It isn't just the surveillance cameras (the existence of which can be justified in neuralgic places).
ReplyDeleteIt is - above all! - what people publish of themselves on the various platforms offered on the Internet.
There's no use complaining: Most of these often very personal utterances are made entirely voluntarily.