Concerns About Privacy and Surveillance

I don't wanna live in that world.

Yeah.

I don't wanna live in that world, and it's like Flock cameras...

Do you... The question I think a lot of people are,

are struggling with, I'm

struggling with, I don't wanna speak for everyone else, is,

uh, are we getting

closer to that world where the, the, even the notion

of privacy is obsolete?

We're just, uh, constantly, constantly on watch, and I,

and I have to say

this, like, the, the machines have perfect memory,

okay? Everything we say and do is

perfectly memorialized in the machine.

This changes people's behavior. This changes how people talk.

Oh, tremendously.

It, it changes how people are willing to engage with ideas,

and this is why

I've long been a proponent of anonymity on the internet.

It allows for a certain kind of, uh, experimentation with the

self, with identity, with what, what do I actually believe?

You can, you can think about ideas in a, in a way that's much more free,

um, than you otherwise would be, where every single tweet, every

single utterance is permanently cataloged and archived for everyone

to see for all time. This changes people's behavior.

Now add to the perfect memory,

the, the ubiquitous vision, okay?

The all-seeing eye.

That's,

that is, to me, really dystopian and bleak.

I don't wanna live in that world.

Yeah.

And, uh, I, I d- I, you know, while I am highly sympathetic

to Flock, and I'm sure actually on balance

they've done a lot of really great things and helped with a lot of things and

they're probably solving a lot of crimes that would otherwise go unsolved,

I think we actually gotta think really carefully about this.