Photography

[tobestool]

Something that has been bubbling round in my mind for a while now has been brought to my attention by sightings of the evil privacy-invading car, namely the slightly uneasy feeling I get having my photograph taken. The impact of being photographed has changed dramaticly in recent times, five years ago, digital cameras were relatively rare, all that

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[decayz]

Part of me isn't bothered by pics on social sites, they can't really use them for anything, however, I don't like the idea of people posting pics of me without knowing, mainly because i look crap in them and for that reason they should be wiped (to a DOD standard!). The government however have proven themselves untrustworthy and would happily track you from cctv to cctv if they could. For 'your security' naturally. That I find concerning.

[tobestool]

Heh, I wasn't meaning particularly the aesthetics of any photos, more the concept of them being easily tracked.

While I may have little trust of the government, I do at least appreciate that they are fairly heavily regulated as to how they use images of you. Where as photos on social networking sites are a lot more accessible to those who may have the desire to misuse the pictures.

But yes, I don't like any administrative body tracking my movements and who I associate with on a day-to-day basis.

[hackenpaste]

You are a paranoid nutter

[tobestool]

That was a very interesting read, thank you. I think it rings rather true at this time when for the first time, such weapons are generally rather more available, if not to the man in the street, but to the well-organsied and dedicated group. As such we're being led to greater and greater levels of fear, by an organisation which, ironically, I fear much more than most of the groups concerned

[hackenpaste]

I had this argument recently with someone, that technology (or at least all tech we've seen so far) is pretty much just fulfilling the role of any other tool and can only really serve to magnify positive or negative actions of the people who employ the technology; that the problems we face are the same old problems we have always faced, i.e. that of people, irrespective of whether they employ a club, a gun or an ICBM. Of course this assumes that technology will not converge on something truly different that breaks this pattern.. in the way that the current climate model can be considered a local stable minima on a graph of environmental variables and some kind of activity (such as global warming) my spill it over into another stable region that is inhospitable for us, so may it be that just because we could still gather up all the computers in the world and destroy them, Butlerian Jihad style, we may not be able to do that for a sentient, self-aware army of KILLER ROBOTS