The Future of Privacy

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OP - June 01, 2013, 01:58 AM

I found this to be a very interesting discussion on the Google Glasses that are about to be released and the impact they will have on privacy.

So we have already seen how social media has currently made the private lives of people public knowledge but we still have some privacy. However with the advance of technology creating devices such as Google Glasses will the complete loss of privacy be inevitable ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLpv7et8QlM

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Reply #1 - June 01, 2013, 10:18 AM

West Virginia may well be more interested in banning Google Glass because of the prospect of police behaviour being recorded. Cops don't like that sort of thing, no matter how legal it may already be in the US.

More generally, any sufficiently determined government - or suitably empowered individual - can already strip you of the illusion of privacy at will. For one thing, the privacy of data transmitted over a public network can be subverted using the right technology; this includes, in extremis, the judicious use of the humble rubber hose where the law is either insufficient or irrelevant. Similarly, the privacy you take for granted in your private life will disappear with a few carefully executed search warrants (and/or applications of the rubber hose to yourself or to other people).

In short, the only place where one may have some hope to complete privacy is inside one's own head. And even that may not be enough.

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Reply #2 - June 01, 2013, 11:39 AM

I recommend watching Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror series.

If you're in the UK, then go to the Channel 4 (4oD) website to watch it online.

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Reply #3 - June 01, 2013, 12:10 PM

Damn .. They look cool..

I got to get one... where do you buy them TheDarkRebel ?

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Reply #4 - June 01, 2013, 02:05 PM

Haven't watched the vid yet, but technology scares me tbh. Call me naive or crazy but I really don't wanna be around when we have robots doing everything and people become redundant…*cue the inevitable depopulation of teh earth* Sometimes I wish I was born in a different era but then I'd miss the Internet and easy-to-access portable music. It's quite a dilemma.
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