The average lemming:
- concerned about online privacy
- strongly against digital surveillance
- rides exclusively public transit where there is surveillance everywhere
There are fundamental differences between physical and digital surveillance, namely when you are in a public space there is no expectation of privacy because there are other people there looking at you. When there are other people there that can actually see you, a camera also watching doesn’t make much of a difference.
it does
people usually doesn’t remember you unless you do some weird shit but once recorded, it will stay for the rest of eternity
By ‘surveillance,’ do you mean a bus security camera to make sure no one is stabbing the driver? Because I’m pretty sure most of us don’t have much of a problem with that. It’s comprehensive government surveillance that is the problem.
Unfortunately, “camera to make sure no one stabs the driver” is the exact tool used by “comprehensive government surveillance”. It’s something we’re forced to accept.
When does “you should minimize your physical footprint so that you are harder to profile by bad people” suddenly become “just stay inside at all times and never go out”?
Even with digital privacy, nothing is 100% effective.
