It is too easy to get accused of something. And you have no evidence to defend yourself. If you keep video recording of your surroundings forever, you now have evidence. AI will make searching such records practical.
There were all sorts of safe guards to make such recordings unnecessary, such as due process. But those were practically eliminated. And people no longer have basic decency!
This assumes that you have access to those recordings. If you're live-logging your life via something you're wearing all day every day, maybe - but if the government decides to prosecute you for something, what are the odds that you'll be able to pull exonerating evidence out of the very system that's trying to fuck you?
Even if a system doesn't care, it's still a hassle. Case in point: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michigan-s...
> An African American man who was wrongly convicted of a fatal shooting in Michiganin 2011 is suing a car rental company for taking seven-years to turn over the receipt that proved his innocence, claiming that they treated him like “a poor black guy wasn’t worth their time”.
I found this article while looking for another story that's virtually identical; I believe in that one it was a gas station receipt that was the key in his case, and he ended up spending very minimal time in jail.
How many people are in jail now because they weren't able to pull this data?
I live now in a city where small exchanges are based on a default of of mistrust (e.g. locking up the tide-pods behind a glass case - it's not a meme). The only super market near (not even _in_) my food desert started random bag checks.
The modern police state requires surveillance technology, but abusive authority has flourished in any technological environment. the mafia had no problem to terrorize entire neighborhoods into omerta for example, without high technology. i'm sure there's other examples.
i don't know the right answer, but considering the extent to which anti-social and criminal attitudes are seemingly allowed to fester, while everybody else is expected to relinquish their dignity, essentially _anonymize_ themselves, it makes me less and less have a kneejerk response to the expansion of technologically supported individualization.
Netflix has a documentary, Long Shot, on someone who was proven innocent of a murder as footage of them at a baseball game was found at the time of the murder. They had to get help finding that footage, as the police wouldn't check.
The prosecutors absolutely did not care that video footage, and phone evidence, placed him at another location, and continued to insist on his guilt. The judge eventually dismissed the charges.
Surely those with larger means have a bigger impact if they're acting nefariously? And it'd be a HUGE issue for society if our rich and powerful were wrongly accused, and couldn't implement their efficiencies and expertise across the market.
now imagine you're the wrong religion after the regime change.
"I have nothing to hide" is a stupid argument that leads to concentration camps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canad...
Nazis also used census and other civil data sources. Deliberate destruction of such records in the Netherlands is one of the legacies of WWII:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Netherlan...>
This and other legacies of 20th-century genocide are chief reasons why European attitudes toward rampant data collection and exchange are far harsher than in the United States. Though I'd argue still not nearly harsh enough.
Hostile regime will kill you anyway. But there is a long way there. And "soft hostile" may throw you into prison for 30 years, or take your your house and family. Or will not enforce punishment on crooks. All fully legally in "proper democracy".
And "wrong religion" and "leads to concentration camps" really is a stupid argument, given what is happening last year. People today are just fine with concentration camps and genecide! It is just absurd argument used to defend corrupted status quo!
If you have a "wrong religion" change it! People did that all the time.
That's the key problem. Why do you assume you'll have access to this data?