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I actually think this is a good trend. First, I have always had this minority/strange belief that the amount of privacy you enjoy is less relevant than how equal is the privacy you have compared to everyone else.

So if all your actions are recorded as soon as you go out of the house, it's annoying and invasive; but if everyone gets the same treatment, it suddenly is not a problem any more, because people will not be interested in you being mean to someone, or is looking sad, or whatever that it is you don't feel like sharing, because it's too common.

Heck, maybe even a lot of illegal things will become legalized or de-facto legalized, like light drugs, prostitution and the like. Systematic generalization like racism, ageism, sexism will be reduced, as people can know you personally quite quickly, instead of relying on our instinctive judgement. Basically, we will have a new understanding on things we previously consider bad/immoral, but somehow a lot of people do it. We as a society will either change our moral judgement, or catch and crucify those we still consider bad (like corruption).

Now, the tricky thing is, it's a slow process like any culture shift. We are all marching toward less privacy, but if you march too fast and got unlucky, you could end up on the news like that couple.




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