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Recording and remembering are not the same thing. You cannot publish, replay, run algorithms on, .. a memory, this should be pretty obvious? Invading peoples privacy by recording them is not part of your rights. It has been possible for quite a while now to record people -- it has never been okey without their consent -- just because "new" technologies allow sneakier ways todo so doesn't magically make it okey.

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What do you call non-fiction books and newspaper? They're people's memories transcribed. Some reporter watches the president do X and then wrote that down. That's recording.

Here's an example of a recording I made today in my head. I was on the way to work. I saw a blue chevy license #E17HV2 cut me off and then proceed to go down the freeway at around 80mph. A police officer was near by and sped after him. A few minutes later I saw he'd been pulled over by the cop."

That recording was in my brain. I just shared with with you. The guy speeding has no right to tell me I can't remember it. He has no right to tell me I can't share it (which I just did).

Video is the same thing just higher fidelity. Augmented me with digital eyes and digital memory is still me, same memories, same rights.

I call Poe's law.

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