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This entire case<\/a> rests on what is a reasonable or unreasonable expectation of privacy. Consider how much that has changed over the past decade or two or ten. 100 years ago, nobody had any recording equipment. 50 years ago, some people had recording equipment. 20 years ago, people started having video cameras in their pockets. 10 years ago, they were still kind of ok. Now, everyone pulls out an HD camera at the first sign of something out of the ordinary. And they can record hours of it or even stream it to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This also came with GPS but people didn’t expect to have to watch for it. Now, with some effort, we can know an average person’s whereabouts to the meter over their last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, while we grew up with the expectation of some privacy, even in a public space, we should be wising up to all of this. When will “a reasonable expectation” change to ‘anyone can know exactly where I’ve been and have HD video of me doing whatever’.
There was also this program, that I don’t know if went anywhere because of the controversy, that had planes flying over cities taking constant aerial photos and thus allowing someone to go back in those and see if anything moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the surveillance world. You might be able to expect privacy in your home but that might not be true soon, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entire case rests on what is a reasonable or unreasonable expectation of privacy. Consider how much that has changed over the past decade or two or ten. 100 years ago, nobody had any recording equipment. 50 years ago, some people had recording equipment. 20 years ago, people started having video cameras in their pockets. 10 years ago, they were still kind of ok. Now, everyone pulls out an HD camera at the first sign of something out of the ordinary. And they can record hours of it or even stream it to the world. This also came with GPS but people didn’t expect to have to watch for it. Now, with some effort, we can know an average person’s whereabouts to the meter over their last few years. So, while we grew up with the expectation of some privacy, even in a public space, we should be wising up to all of this. When will “a reasonable expectation” change to ‘anyone can know exactly where I’ve been and have HD video of me doing whatever’.There was also this program, that I don’t know if went anywhere because of the controversy, that had planes flying over cities taking constant aerial photos and thus allowing someone to go back in those and see if anything moved. Welcome to the surveillance world. You might be able to expect privacy in your home but that might not be true soon, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eran.geek.co.il\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}