The expectation of privacy


Our private lives, once protected, are also now commodifiable online. – 123rf.com

WE live in a world in which we are watched nearly all the time. When we step outside our homes, surveillance cameras installed by our neighbours or inside shops that we visit are watching us.

This constant surveillance in public or semi-public places is not a problem. By and large, when we leave the home, we do expect to be “seen”. The difference with near-constant public surveillance is that what humans did approximately, cameras do perfectly.

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