And if not, its existence is highly overdue.
Where tracking of privacy-sensitive activities of individuals in public, traditionally required exhaustible resources (as in agents physically shadowing targets); cameras and other sensors can (and will) track said activities of any individual in public, regardless of being targeted (not that targeting individuals is possible to begin with: only after collection, one can pinky swear not to look at, or discard information regarding non-targets).
The main difference being, one traditionally having effective “expectation of privacy” in public (unless specifically targeted by authorities: having sufficient reason to allocate resources to the individual), but in the context of modern technology we lost the benefit of the doubt. And unless never setting a foot outside again, any arguably more incriminating personal data (naked in the shower versus protesting an oppressive government) should be “expected” to be collected.
So because “privacy” is historically tainted with said demoralization, any efforts to defend “privacy” in “public” (where one can truly no longer have expectation thereof) are doomed to fail. Therefore I wish to have a term, without ambiguity introduced by any subjective matter (that is “expectancy”: the individual’s versus a typically biassed judge’s); one that makes no distinction between personal data being collected in private, or in public.
You never had “effective” expectation of privacy in public.
What you’re talking about has nothing to do with privacy.
Its not private information that you drove down the (public, before someone brings up the specter of private roads) road, went to McDonald’s then went to the porno store.
What you’re upset about it how much more easily people can connect those pieces of information and access them.
The cat can’t be put back in the bag, what you gotta do is be one of those psychopaths who use tag obfuscation and wear face masks around.
wow, still manages to be consistently so wrong about anything this user writes.
That’s why they asked for a term like that.
Relatively speaking. These patterns were extremely unlikely to be uncovered (unless, again, you were a worthy enough target to allocate resources to); and therefore such information might as well be considered “effectively” private.
Yes. The pieces were either not available, or would be way too resource-intensive to piece together: simply to generate the type of insights outlined in your scenario.
A defeatist mindset can only result in defeat, while we’re still amidst the rollout. I’m not quite sure what you mean with “tag obfuscation”, but there’s nothing “psychopathic” about wearing masks, solely in an effort of protecting one’s personal information, from potentially being used in a malicious manner. What is psychopathic however, is subjecting innocent persons to that sort of tyranny, and victim-blaming them whenever they resist.
don’t bother with that user, it’s a professional shit stirrer. he is here to divide a community, not to participate in it. I don’t downvote much, but so far all of his comments I have came across through different topics deserved a downvote. just look at the username.
Tag obfuscation is like those plate covers that are polarized or shaded or whatever.
I think recognizing and accepting how you’re gonna look when you take steps to protect your privacy is the first step. You’re gonna have to be able to respond the first time someone calls your pink tinted eyeglasses and shiesty schizo because it’s not about to be the last. I’m speaking as someone with those pink tinted glasses and pull up neck gaiter .
I also think you might not remember the amount of stuff you’d just end up putting together about people you see all the time just because they’re in the same place as you at the same time.
What might be helpful to you is to drop the phrase “effectively private” because what you’re describing is not privacy or effectively privacy. It feels like a loss of privacy but what was actually lost was anonymity.
Ah, I see. Then I’d argue that which applies to masking, similarly applies to tag obfuscation. And ideally the plate would remain readable in case of disputes (as would recognition of a face), but mass-surveillance systems have taken that nuance from the equation.
If overall collection of personal data isn’t a concern (which it is for me), and the focus is solely on sabotaging automated systems: clothing with confusing patterns may throw off classifications, IR glasses might impair facial recognition, and dirt-like noise atop license plates might hinder character recognition; but the irony is, that one likely draws more attention to themselves in doing so (an officer being alerted upon failure, and likely required to manually review: potentially leading to an actual investigation).
I don’t mind what most ordinary people know about me, unless they’d systematically collate those activities: especially for the purposes of exposing underlying patterns. If the persons involved or activities carried out weren’t memorable, they are likely to be forgotten. And generally speaking: observations by an untrained person are hardly reliable, and they certainly lack the resolution of digital counterparts.
But that lack of anonymity directly translates to a potential privacy-implication. You may also argue that nothing is private, because you could put a gun on a person’s head, and force them to give up any secret they have. Surveillance is equally involuntary, and similarly exposes details about one’s private life, which where traditionally very unlikely to be extracted.
Your best bet is to start reading up on privacy and fourth amendment cases. Privacy is a right legally enshrined with very precise boundaries. Anonymity is not.
That distinction is extremely important because the things you’re describing are not violations of your privacy. Except when you describe coercion which is a different crime.
I want to be as clear as possible: I am not trying to have the philosophical conversation you are trying to have. I am trying to bring your concerns into the real world (which they’re about, tbf) and into the real realm of understanding of that world that the law corresponds to. Because ultimately that’s the lines you need to color inside and out whose geometry you need to be aware of.
Aside from actually answering the question: What are you trying to accomplish and where? Which no one will do, that’s the most help I can offer.
The discussion was about “effective privacy” in public: your every move not meticulously being monitored in it, and therefore effectively remaining unknown; despite technically falling under public “knowledge”. I understand how “privacy” is typically interpreted in context of legal cases and law, and how it doesn’t, or inadequately accounts for advances in technology: leading to formerly hidden public activities, possibly becoming uncovered as a result. If anything, I think we’ve clearly demonstrated the usefulness of a catch-all term, that generally doesn’t discern between context, in which personal data is being collected; which was ultimately the intent of this post.
Actions in public are not “technically” public knowledge, they are public knowledge.
If you dont want to be observed, figure out how to avoid observation when in public.
Public activities are not hidden, they were simply not observed.
We can keep falling over these minor differences, but as far as I’m concerned it’s a distinction without a difference, practically speaking. You seem to disagree, which is completely fine too. Have a good one! :)
The distinction has an explicitly defined difference with hundreds of years of history behind it in the us alone and severe consequences for misunderstanding it.
I don’t mind to disengage but these are not abstract concepts we’re discussing and treating them as such does more harm than good to anyone who reads what you say.