I think the main reason for the decrease of personal privacy is technological progress. There have been more back-steps (wiretapping, movement of communications onto the internet, ability for private messages to be screenshotted, normalization of video recording in public places) than forward steps (the Fourth Amendment in the United States, secrecy of voting). The main thing is that corporations and the government both want to enforce more surveillance policies now. I think it’s important to think about what that means and what consequences (if any) that would have on the general populace.
I think private messages should be able to be screenshot (because the user should control their phones and its apps. Any inversion of control seems wrong from a software development perspective)
I agree that corporations and the government are on the same side, so to speak. I think the media is more aligned with these than against. But I also think public opinion is being manipulated with tactics which make people distrust on another. Snowden was labeled a traitor following the leak of NSA papers, and this label made people reluctant to defend him.
If we assume that 40% of America thought of him as a traitor, then the media could have made it seem like 70% of people thought of him as a traitor. This could, through conformity effects, make people update their stance towards the perceived majority opinion, so that the rate of people who thought of him as a traitor actually became 70%. I believe there’s a lot of exploits similar to this, and that many people overlook them (or consider the change to be organic)
I think the main reason for the decrease of personal privacy is technological progress. There have been more back-steps (wiretapping, movement of communications onto the internet, ability for private messages to be screenshotted, normalization of video recording in public places) than forward steps (the Fourth Amendment in the United States, secrecy of voting). The main thing is that corporations and the government both want to enforce more surveillance policies now. I think it’s important to think about what that means and what consequences (if any) that would have on the general populace.
I agree entirely with that reason.
I think private messages should be able to be screenshot (because the user should control their phones and its apps. Any inversion of control seems wrong from a software development perspective)
I agree that corporations and the government are on the same side, so to speak. I think the media is more aligned with these than against. But I also think public opinion is being manipulated with tactics which make people distrust on another. Snowden was labeled a traitor following the leak of NSA papers, and this label made people reluctant to defend him.
If we assume that 40% of America thought of him as a traitor, then the media could have made it seem like 70% of people thought of him as a traitor. This could, through conformity effects, make people update their stance towards the perceived majority opinion, so that the rate of people who thought of him as a traitor actually became 70%. I believe there’s a lot of exploits similar to this, and that many people overlook them (or consider the change to be organic)