He admits that such a mostly-open world will seem more irksome and demanding people will be expected to keep negotiating the tradeoffs between knowing and privacy. Privacy is only possible if freedom (including the freedom to know) is protected first.īrin thus maintains that privacy is a "contingent right," one that grows out of the more primary rights, e.g. It is the only condition under which citizens may have some chance of catching the violators of their freedom and privacy. That will only happen in a world that is mostly open, in which most citizens know most of what is going on, most of the time. This means they must not only have rights, but also the power to use them and the ability to detect when they are being abused. Hence, Brin explains that ".the key question is whether citizens will be potent, sovereign and knowing enough to enforce this deeply human want." He feels that this core privacy can be saved simply because that is what humans deeply need and want. David Brin with sousveillance "maybecamera" at the Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM's) CFP conference where such a sousveillance device was given to each attendee.īrin argues that a core level of privacy-protecting our most intimate interactions-may be preserved, despite the rapid proliferation of cameras that become ever-smaller, cheaper and more numerous faster than Moore's law.
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