Re: [PLUG] groan

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:25 PM Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Surveillance cameras
> everywhere, recording devices everywhere.


Just wait until the costs come down.  Everybody and their uncle will be
recording video 24x7, uploading it to various community websites, and it
will all be indexed for faces/numbers/etc, and cross-referenced against
Facebook.

Anybody will be able to type a name into any of 1000 websites (all
FOSS-driven) and get the complete video history of anybody on the planet.

That's basically how it works for mp3 files today.  Once upon a time there
was Napster, and hosting/bandwidth was expensive enough that there weren't
many alternatives.  Once bandwidths went up along with hard drive space,
just about anybody could host just about every mp3 file ever created, and
it is impossible to contain.

Video is much larger, but when we get to a point where downloading a
petabyte of video is about as complex as downloading a couple of mp3 files
you'll see all your personal info widely disseminated, simply because it is
easy.  No amount of regulation will help, because it won't be businesses
sharing it.

Your personal information wants to be free...

-- 
Rich
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