Will privacy be a thing of the past?

Evidently it is something we will be living with very soon. I know that in Britain, there are now few metropolitan public spaces without cc surveillance cameras, and as the cost of spying on you continues to fall, it’s merely a matter of time before the average individual can be watched perpetually from the instant they set foot outside their home or apartment.

I think there will be corrections as people and then legislators become more and more aware of the costs and problems with the situations created by too much data and too little privacy.

Unfortunately, for a long time now there has been way too much apathy and resignation and even support for the changes. I think some backlash is way overdue, personally.

@Zaku. Do you think that not wanting to be monitored implies something that is illegal or immoral by the person who wants ‘privacy? ’

Well, at least we still have complete authority/privacy in our own property, or at least in our bedroom. As for when we’re in public, I believe there are designated places that allow privacy (such as public lavatories) and common places where privacy is not imposed (such as cameras on streets). Public places belong to all but if you bring camera in public bathroom you can be arrested for violation of privacy, the same thing could also be beneficial for us as governments can monitor places in public to recognize and handle murder in a more efficient way.

Lets not forget that human population keep on growing so maybe someday in the future even the most desolate arid desert will have prying ‘eyes’ from other human being.

@MrGrimm888 No I absolutely do not. And I think there’s an serious flaw in that line of thinking as well as the “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t mind” idea. Privacy is a basic human need. Not allowing privacy, and being watched and tracked and recorded all the time, screws with everyone’s well being.

Yeah. I agree. I asked in an inflammatory manor to get an emotional response. Your reply was well stated . No offense intended.

UM. GA…You should become an ‘official member. ’ Unless you’re too good for us….

I think we’re already there. We are already overly monitored, whether by our governments or by private companies who want to sell to us. I think you’re actually better off in the US because of your constitutional rights. We don’t have the same protections as you do in Australia. Our politicians are very happy to keep increasing surveillance and their access to our data and sadly most people have no idea of the implications of all of that data being collected and retained. Our government(s) use the threat of terrorism to keep increasing surveillance, but I don’t trust them not to monitor journalists, their opponents and activists.

Casting about, it quickly becomes rather evident that legal or not, we can and will be both watched and listened to. And the only prudent course is to assume that every action or utterance is capable of being of captured by anyone prepared to expend the effort and money required. The evidence is absolutely irrefutable.

@MrGrimm888 You are lucky you are in America. At least you can worry for something rightfully yours being threatened. In some other countries (mine for example) people don’t have the same luxury because privacy isn’t considered a human’s right in the first place. The word “privacy” alone already carries a negative sense and is to be avoided. When someone complains about having no privacy, people will look at lhem like they’re trying to cover up something. There may be law to protect privacy but only for some very serious cases. The other annoyance that Americans and other countries can’t stand is legal.

So, you can see that in some places people don’t need to worry about privacy being something of the past because it has never existed. There are much fewer security camera here than in America, but what’s scarier than the security cameras is people’s mentality. They automatically enforce privacy violation on others. It’s much harder against people around you.

Privacy is already dead.

That sucks @Mimishu1995. It had not occurred to me that other countries wouldn’t see privacy as a right.

We still have privacy?