Privacy and Technology in Modern Society

You could have, for example, the Fourth Amendment.

You can have a pretty

deep legalistic and/or a letter or the spirit of the

law, which is closer to where I am as a classic

progressive,

um, on, on right of protection to privacy, both here and in Europe,

which have different ways of... But, but then y- y- you

could comply with the law of the

letter of the law and totally eviscerate the spirit of the

law here.

Right.

And so, and like, and then i- these like i- and

then ha- controlling where one or the other is, is, is,

is a very much of a, you know,

managing

insights that are n- gonna be hard for other...

Y- managing out of distribution moral

insights.

Hmm.

Because it's not in distribution to understand the distinction between

how these technologies can both conform and not conform to,

say, our common understanding of our right to

privacy.

As an example, you can predict people's--

You can and will be increasingly able to predict people's actual

behavior,

which may mean you're predicting their actual thoughts they're gonna have in a

domestic context. Now, that's

a something we have to really look at and control.

But if you control that on the battlefield, how would you a-

ever be able to

compete and win against a, a peer-to-peer adversary that

will be able to predict-

Right

... our actions?

This is also getting at the idea that, that,

you know, we, we--

There are behaviors we want to promote in certain contexts and completely

prohibit in others.

Mm-hmm.

Right?

Yeah.