Generally agree on the publicly available case. Several benefits, probably a couple downsides.
- People are more aware the data's available. Most people are probably minimally aware of how much they're actually being recorded all the time. It occurs occasionally on the news, yet most likely never really consider it much unless they're the subject of constant camera monitoring.
- Anybody can check anybody, and with extremely open data archives, then everybody also knows when other people check. "This many people clicked on your account" or something similar, just with surveillance footage. Like usual, police / FBI / spooks / ect... probably just write laws to legalize not telling you and that entitled people don't have to follow those guidelines. Theory's nice though.
- Data's already there and being used, yet, currently, only the police have the data, and you never know what it's being used for unless you ask. Even then you may get a wall of legal issues to ensure you're not allowed to find out. Or you have to lawyer up and pay expensive fees to fight the legal wall.
- Data can be used for other purposes. Anonymized statistics on usage of municipal resources, infrastructure, high traffic areas, crime area behaviors. Amazing what you can find even just cruising around on Google Street View in areas known for high crime. "Damn, just saw somebody pull a gun on the street car. Duck Google driver!"
- Adds to other sources like people's webcams, government satellites, sensor stations for things like weather updates and verification of events / conditions in other areas. Amazing how difficult it's become in the era of fake images to tell whether anything is "actually" happening in some distant location.
- Partially deals with the "Who watches the Watchmen issue." The other Watchmen. Crowd sourced observation and journalism has already shown on numerous occasions that it's often more responsive, and frequently fair, than a lot of the paid corporate journalism. Ukraine was a case where the crowd source journalism and data analysis was so much better than anything the news was showing, it was like every Wiki editor was down on the ground following troop movements. Barely get the mainline news to show anything other than stock footage.
Downsides:
- Obviously stalking. Although with notices about people checking your data frequently, there's at least some push back against the stalking.
- Profiling. However, this probably already gets done by the police anyways. Dark skin areas, "ethnic" areas, ect...
- Data's there, somebody will probably find an "app" that does something miserable with the data. Too little faith in humanity to believe they'll do almost anything else after LLMs and image gen.
- People are more aware the data's available. Most people are probably minimally aware of how much they're actually being recorded all the time. It occurs occasionally on the news, yet most likely never really consider it much unless they're the subject of constant camera monitoring.
- Anybody can check anybody, and with extremely open data archives, then everybody also knows when other people check. "This many people clicked on your account" or something similar, just with surveillance footage. Like usual, police / FBI / spooks / ect... probably just write laws to legalize not telling you and that entitled people don't have to follow those guidelines. Theory's nice though.
- Data's already there and being used, yet, currently, only the police have the data, and you never know what it's being used for unless you ask. Even then you may get a wall of legal issues to ensure you're not allowed to find out. Or you have to lawyer up and pay expensive fees to fight the legal wall.
- Data can be used for other purposes. Anonymized statistics on usage of municipal resources, infrastructure, high traffic areas, crime area behaviors. Amazing what you can find even just cruising around on Google Street View in areas known for high crime. "Damn, just saw somebody pull a gun on the street car. Duck Google driver!"
- Adds to other sources like people's webcams, government satellites, sensor stations for things like weather updates and verification of events / conditions in other areas. Amazing how difficult it's become in the era of fake images to tell whether anything is "actually" happening in some distant location.
- Partially deals with the "Who watches the Watchmen issue." The other Watchmen. Crowd sourced observation and journalism has already shown on numerous occasions that it's often more responsive, and frequently fair, than a lot of the paid corporate journalism. Ukraine was a case where the crowd source journalism and data analysis was so much better than anything the news was showing, it was like every Wiki editor was down on the ground following troop movements. Barely get the mainline news to show anything other than stock footage.
Downsides:
- Obviously stalking. Although with notices about people checking your data frequently, there's at least some push back against the stalking.
- Profiling. However, this probably already gets done by the police anyways. Dark skin areas, "ethnic" areas, ect...
- Data's there, somebody will probably find an "app" that does something miserable with the data. Too little faith in humanity to believe they'll do almost anything else after LLMs and image gen.