Privacy is deteriorating as new technologies allow nearly everyone the opportunity to capture images and sound bits of everyone else in nearly every place. Cameras are all over the place in cities catching speedsters and those who run red lights or break into businesses. For those of you concerned in the downtown district (Kansas City) there are red light cameras now posted at the intersections of 39th and Main and 19th and Walnut, as well as several other locations.
Many cameras are owned by individuals who carry them around in their pockets with them everyday always capable of catching someone doing something they "shouldn't". Hell, we even have cameras on Mars and satellites orbiting other planets taking pictures of places millions of miles away!
Nearly everyone today is under the microscope, and anyone stands a fair chance at getting their image or voice published. What is it that makes us want privacy? Is it so we maintain some level of control over the perceptions of ourselves by our peers? What if privacy was thrown out the window and everyone had a pretty good idea of what everyone else was up to? Would we be as judgmental about another person's behavior? Is it even justifiable to have a right to privacy, even for those who are merely self conscious? Wouldn't the elimination of privacy destroy a significant amount of hypocrisy? If everyone were as naked as you, why would you care? At the very least we would have a better idea of the truth.
For me it easy to understand the ability of technology to progress in such a way that even our thoughts can be read as the electrical impulses are analyzed by computer programs designed to translate our thoughts into texts, words, or even images. In fact, image translations of what the human eye "sees" have already been developed! One day the very thoughts that run through our heads may no longer have the privacy they once had.
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