The Choices of Others
Wendy M. Grossman,
net.wars,
Nov 22, 2019
This post is about the author's reaction when her neighbour placed a doorbell camera that their door that captures (and records, and sends to Amazon) all the comings and going through her own door. "It never occurred to them that a 180-degree camera watching their door is, given the workings of physics and geography, also inevitably watching mine. And it never occurred to them to ask me whether I minded." Now this is a fairly narrow example, but it raises the more general question of how your privacy decisions may impact on others. Should your insurance company be able to rely on your sister's DNA to set insurance rates? Should your brother's test scores be used by a company deciding whether to hire you? Image: Big Brother Watch.
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