Auto-SummaryThe post argues that privacy is a fundamental human right, yet it is often undervalued and compromised in the modern digital age. It highlights how the right to privacy is frequently dismissed in favor of perceived safety or security concerns, using the example of government surveillance and the proliferation of affordable consumer drones. The author contends that by participating in the use of these technologies, individuals inadvertently endorse a culture of surveillance and loss of personal autonomy. They emphasize that defending privacy requires standing up against such practices, even if it means forgoing certain conveniences. The post concludes by urging readers to reject technologies that infringe on privacy and to advocate for these rights, drawing parallels to other human rights that are universally respected.
People these days do not realize that privacy is a human right, as stated in the Charter of the United Nations.
A human right always needs to be defended. What people don't get is that when you would interview a random person in any street in the western world asking about freedom of speech, theyw ill all be fore it and defend it. If you ask them if they would defend the right of someone with a different opinion to have their fair say they will agree thhat that is what they would want.
Yet when it is about the right to a private life, suddenly it is a discussion. Suddenly it needs to be weighed against safety or security. Or the people will just say they have nothing to hide, as if that is even true. When you ask them all sort of personal info, they start to stutter and decline. And then realize they have something to hide after all. However, that is barely the point. The point is that if you defend the right freedom of speech, or any other right, such as the right to assembly, people vehemently defend it. When it is about privacy, people are ready to compromise and make personal assessments.
I find this very strange and it shows that the right to privacy is not well understood and taken seriously.
The usa is THE country where the government has no respect for any sort of privacy. We see this with their NSA and other intelligence agencies. They now have drones flying over domestic soil because there is always a reason or justification to do so. Recently I saw on tv how above LA they now use a Cesna aircraft that films everything that goes on with a resolution that allows a cop to watch the footage to see people moving about. And so, if a crime was committed, they can rewind history so to say, and see what happened.
If YOU want privacy, because you believe human rights are special things we should defend, you cannot agree with what this man did on the beach. Everyone can now buy rather cheap, some kind of drone. There are many companies selling them nowadays, they are getting really affordable. For many people it is but a toy. But they don't seem to care about filming or photographing otyher people, who may not like to be photographed.
They don't understand they are part of a decline in privacy simply because by showing they think nothing is wrong with filming people on a beach, they give the message that anyone can do it abd that it is okay. Well, it is NOT okay. If you like human rights, if you therefore like privacy, as a human right, yu must not buy these 'toys' because you do not want to give that wrong message. And you will need to constrain your need for pleasure by disallowing yourself to enjoy such toys.
One day it will bite your own ass if you do not stand up for human rights. One day maybe you will be at some place, a beach, a concert, a demonstration, whatever, and someone willr ecord a video, upload it to some website and your boss will see you didn't have a cold that day but lied so you get have a leisure day.
If we lose all privacy by spying on each other, we are giving the government the same message, that we think it is ok to not have a private life. Young people today are extremely unaware of privacy. And yet we now see more and more social media related incidents, bullying leading to suicide, destroying people's reputations, uploading pictures of themselves or others showing drunken stupor, even rape is being photographed and uploaded rather than people intervening. It is immoral to have a facebook account in my opinion. It is immoral to use privacy violating services and goods, such as drones, google, facebook and other social media.
I am with this woman simply because on all that damned beach, she was the only one who took it upon her to confront this moron, that seemed to think it is okay, possibly hiding behjind the idea it was a public beach. But the issue is not about the idea that in a public space you do not have the right to privacy. That is just not true. The point is we all wanna go places and we therefore have no choice at all than to enter public space, the street etc. Public spaces do not mean all bets are off. Do you want to be able to go somewhere without cctv picking you up, apart from the fact that all these people fly drones above your head?
If we aren't already to a great extent, do you WANT a totalitarian surveillance/police dictatorship? Because if you want, then keep recording anything you see with your smart phones, tablets, drones and keep using social media and services by immoral companies, where YOU are the product, not the service or good you use. By all means, go give the government all the leeway they like, give the message that you don't care about human rights, about privacy. And next they will start attackijg another human right, maybe freedom of speech. Because, you know, we can make that a debate too!
After all,w e don't need the right to say what we like. Because mostly all people talk within certain norms anyway, so lets make that official. Most people won't go too far in thir frredom of speech, so we limit it to that margin and the rest is illegal. And then we will tighten the acceptable speech to more and more strict terms.
And let's attack the right to assembly. Because really, do you need to congregate every week? It causes way too much traffic and accidents. Let's limit your assembly rights to once a month. And let's go from there and limit religious congregation to ones a month, after all, hey, do you really need to go to church every week? Just pack it up and present your case to god once a month, he will hear you then just fine too.
Parents are not teaching kids the value of privacy. Because ICT has swept so fast over our civilization that we are all stunned. Parents never had to deal with ICT as a means that undermines rights but also boosts connectivity to an unprecedented scale.
We must stop each other from letting ourselves go into a dictatorship. It is NOT needed nor fun to record everything. It demenas us all, because all experience may be recorded, and nothing will be mysterious or just a memory.
We have the right to be forgotten, but with recordings of our stupid moments as well as our glory moments the lives of us, who we are is never really a mystery anymore. The experience on the beach with friends, or just vy yourself enjoying the weather, recorded on a picture, loses a lot of the experience.
For the rest, who WANTS to see other people all the time in their pictures? These are random strangers you will never meet, yet snapshotting the world around you shows people you don't even know, in the background.
We have to learn to be more technorealistic, in that ICT is no longer in our advantage. The main advantage is to law enforcement, the government and their agencies and to their means to repress and suppress people in society.
And then I haven't even yet addressed the psychological need for privacy. Would you live in a panopticum state? But for our personal development, from early childhood on to maturity, we need privacy badly, to have space to ourselves. You cannot mature properly without that, psychologist agree on.
Use less technology that undermines your privacy and that of others. No more drones! Let's relax on beaches and in parks without having to constantly be aware of the sky when you need to scratch your ass. To be stripped naked through technology disallows us the blessing of our little awkwardnesses that no one sees when there is no camera.
Privacy is a right you can demand but it is also a gift you bestow upon another. And there is such a thing as solidarity, that even if you don't give a damn for idiotic reasons, fight for it nonetheless, because one day you want your partner in society, your fellow man, your neighbor, to help you with your problems. So it is always a good idea to fight for a human right.
We should have more women that address people with their stupid toys with camera's. The norm should not be to dismiss this woman for whatever morose reason one can come up with, the norm should be privacy first. And this norm is based on a value. The value of mutual respect and the value that human rights give us.
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