WD: I believe in privacy, but privacy is just one of a number of considerations. Privacy of political conversation is essential for a democratic society. Is the privacy of information about yourself necessary for it? That’s not very clear. It’s a very squishy concept. In small communities, you have very little privacy, but you have accountability because you know who the members of the community are.
What bothers me is that information about people is so readily available in a way not auditable to them, to organizations like ChoicePoint, who broker it around and enable other people, who are not legally constrained in what they do with it, to make decisions based on it.
I am, on balance, more pleased with the fact that I can learn lots of information about people in minutes by using the Web than I am concerned about the fact that people can learn lots of information about me that way. And I would not like to see laws that restrict people’s ability to go investigate things.
Here’s my scenario: For all its current faults, it won’t be 10 years before facial recognition gets incredibly good. So everybody’s camera will be saying "hi" to the people who go by. Would I like to see that outlawed? I think what outlawing it would be saying [are] that certain classes of big boys — the Fortune 1,000, the secret police — would be allowed to have access to such information, but you little irresponsible children won’t be. So I have a cowboy viewpoint on this.
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