Recording everything doesn't actually erode privacy. What happens in your mind, body and soul is still yours forever. Your relationship to truth and <$DEITY> is only known to you and <$DEITY>, at the end of the day.
It's increasingly difficult to communicate what you actually mean to people.
People are emptying out their contextual and relational knowledge. They are leaving it in facebook profiles and politics. There's no need to understand someone's life context and how it might influence the meaning of their communications.
The more we seek to know in data, the more we see someone's data as their primary context in the world. We see less of what they mean as a person, or what they mean to tell us.
You could record every pore of my skin, every hair on my head, my bank account and my programming code. I'll go out and buy a camel, invest in the next crypto fad and move to africa, and you'll have no idea why.
Frankly some people are more private than ever, in plain sight, thanks to the Sauron eye (or eyes) of data harvesting.
If you 'brought back' privacy, our everyday view of people would require empathy and relating to the person, so that you understand what's different about them. People would make their direction more clear, simply to facilitate communicating something worthwhile.
One of the humiliating aspects of the connected, data-driven world is that reveals how much of our behavior is predictable, even without access to our inner mental world.
Norm McDonald had a great joke about writing his own biography.
He asked himself, well what would it be about? His average day, he gets up, he is hungry, so he makes some eggs, has breakfast. By the time he's done with breakfast he goes to do something and it's nearly lunch! So he goes looking for some food for lunch and eats it... annd long story short he concludes that life is mostly about thinking of food, searching for food and eating food.
The uninteresting stuff is predictable. I can tell you where a monk lives, what he does every day. But not what it means to live like he does, nor do I know what he'll write next.
It's increasingly difficult to communicate what you actually mean to people.
People are emptying out their contextual and relational knowledge. They are leaving it in facebook profiles and politics. There's no need to understand someone's life context and how it might influence the meaning of their communications.
The more we seek to know in data, the more we see someone's data as their primary context in the world. We see less of what they mean as a person, or what they mean to tell us.
You could record every pore of my skin, every hair on my head, my bank account and my programming code. I'll go out and buy a camel, invest in the next crypto fad and move to africa, and you'll have no idea why.
Frankly some people are more private than ever, in plain sight, thanks to the Sauron eye (or eyes) of data harvesting.
If you 'brought back' privacy, our everyday view of people would require empathy and relating to the person, so that you understand what's different about them. People would make their direction more clear, simply to facilitate communicating something worthwhile.