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> Surveillance is desired by the politically and economically powerful It's also desired by consumers. Parents love tracking their children, spouses track each other. Everyone wants to get a camera to catch porch pirates. Let's not pretend this is something being forced on us by some external evil. The evil is coming from inside the house.
this is entirely misses the point about exactly what makes it dangerous there's nothing bad with having a camera to spot porch pirates, as long as the data stays private it becomes problematic when everyone's hooked up to one central place (plus the "AI") same as the common talking points about CCTV, which always miss the distinction that there's minimal risk if it's only going to some video recorder in the back of t…
It's still surveillance, and it's subject to subpoena so it can become government data as needed. The centralization makes things worse, sure, but the desire to monitor others often comes from individual actors.
I can walk down my street and I will be recorded every step of the way by someone. The government didn't mandate this, each homeowner decided they "needed" a camera.