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John Wilander<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We’ve had a reasonable debate over the right to be forgotten. The next one will be about the right to lie. Not the right to lie in court or as part of some fraud, but the right to everyday lies and white lies. Digital surveillance deprives is of this important part of life.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, I might be ashamed or shy about my age\/looks\/past\/job\/health\/sexual preferences\/race\/ethnicity\/beliefs\/political views\/abilities\/education\/family history etc. It’s valid to lie about such in everyday life. Tracking and ML should not interfere with that right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Peter Hosey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When we try to automatically verify someone’s identity using whatever scraps of information they’ve given us, or to let them board a plane with their face<\/a>, we treat the data we have on someone as being necessarily, implicitly the same as their actual truth. We assume\/trust\/bet that the data we have matches the truth; that they are the same as each other, and therefore the record can tell us the truth.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Back in the present, our system of mass-surveillance\/data-brokerage\/(whatever facet you want to look at) is one that promises convenience. It promises to enable its users, its querents, to learn (or verify) information about a subject without their involvement (which implies without their consent). It promises to enable the construction of other systems, automated themselves, to fulfill the function of querent, to ask the questions about us that the record-keeping system promises to be able to answer.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The more data we assemble on everyone, the more we can automate. And the automated systems feed data back, and contribute more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n