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My issue is not the automation of memory, it's the linkage to other databases and sharing with other entities, especially the government.
Further, none of these institutions have demonstrated that they reliably secure data. Identity theft is already rampant. Imagine a future where they can steal your image or substitute another's for yours.
It's the resources-expenditure defense of previous surveillance techniques that doesn't hold today: it takes very few marginal extra resources to analyze data and identify 5 people as it does 5,000 with this technology (for whatever purpose).
The issue is that with this technology in place, if "they" want to find you (they being businesses, governments, law enforcement - anyone with access to the database), they can, easily.
Seems like placing barriers to entry in the "fully identify individual people exactly where they are" is a worse future than the "require hard work and expense to find individuals thus requiring a cost/benefit equation."
Could you imagine if a parking ticket was automatically deducted from your bank account immediately? It's not like the technology doesn't make that reasonably feasible - it's the current privacy hurtles in place that prevent it.
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[–] hyunlee 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Keep in mind that your brain is sort of a database. Just not made out of metal/plastic bits and pieces.
And yes, it pains me as well. Hopefully humanity will turn around...
[–] FreeSpeachRocks 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Understood.
My issue is not the automation of memory, it's the linkage to other databases and sharing with other entities, especially the government.
Further, none of these institutions have demonstrated that they reliably secure data. Identity theft is already rampant. Imagine a future where they can steal your image or substitute another's for yours.
Scary stuff.
[–] HEY_GURL_PM_ME 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Bingo!
It's the resources-expenditure defense of previous surveillance techniques that doesn't hold today: it takes very few marginal extra resources to analyze data and identify 5 people as it does 5,000 with this technology (for whatever purpose).
The issue is that with this technology in place, if "they" want to find you (they being businesses, governments, law enforcement - anyone with access to the database), they can, easily.
Seems like placing barriers to entry in the "fully identify individual people exactly where they are" is a worse future than the "require hard work and expense to find individuals thus requiring a cost/benefit equation."
Could you imagine if a parking ticket was automatically deducted from your bank account immediately? It's not like the technology doesn't make that reasonably feasible - it's the current privacy hurtles in place that prevent it.