The future is zero privacy/anonymity.
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Unpopular opinion but future being non-privacy is a good thing. But only if it starts at the top with politicians/media. Think of how many power hungry cops were exposed from cameras. It is overall a net positive (yes, there is not enough punishment for the epstein "glitches" and cops turning it off). Also, that being said, if it starts at the bottom like China, then it sucks.
Police should be filmed but that doesn't mean civilians shouldn't have privacy. Privacy is an inalienable right.
Inside your home sure. In a town square, most of us already gave away privacy to our smartphones, neighbors Ring videos, etc. Unless you're out in farmland.
De-anon twitter will not completely lose your privacy on the internet. Just the potential for most of it (assuming twit gets more popular and sites choose to go with integrated logins and tracking). And trumps or other alternative never take off.
My point is in some year 3000, i can see right to life being considered a more inalienable right than privacy in a (in your view, distopian) town implementing cameras everywhere resulting in a much lower crime rate and a 0-unresolved-crime rate.
"Most of us already did X" is a nonargument. Twitter will turn into a bigger shit sandwich than it already is. Not believing in privacy is antithetical to liberty because public anonymity is essential to spreading truth without fear of retribution.
Of course for now, places like wikileaks still need to exist. I'm just not bought in to the idea that people really find truths on twitter or how lack of privacy on twitter could make that shit sandwich worse. I imagine it primarily removes the bots and glowies. Or at least makes it a little harder for em.
You might mix privacy with authority responsibility and transparency. Cop, even bad one have two states - ordinary citizen and cop. Cop when he is cop is not a regular person - he is doing specific job that was given to him by people who hired him and paying him salary for doing that job. So when cop is a cop, his employer AKA people, have full and unlimited right to control and monitor his every single move. Especially taking in account specific rights people grant to cops.
What you might want is something like that - when he is cop, his every single step has to be documented videoed, recorded and should be publicly available. People pay his salary and have full right to check how he do his job. When he is a citizen he have full rights for the privacy as anybody else and no any cop privileges and rights. If his actions as a cop is (was) not documented for whatever reason (mY cAmErA wAs bRoKeN!!!), he is (was) not a cop at that moment and have no any privileges or cop rights at all. So, cop doing something wrong he want to hide, had to turn off his recording device, and at that moment he became just a criminal and victim could do anything for defence without any consequences.
Society have a full right to control and monitor any state or government official without any limitations. Since that is society hired them and pay them salary.
All above, of course is for some better society, not for current one.
No but im open to ideas. Apart from kiddie porn, i havent heard much about ISP giving up privacy. Seems that most gave up on the copyright torrenting stuff but i havent read or thought much on it. Ideally ISP would be transparent and open to lawsuits about their enforcement. And/or people would just pick ISP that respect privacy. And yea, the areas where you only have a single ISP could be screwed but they are probably used to the shit service already. I've always been biased toward just relocating.