So I just saw this rant https://devrant.com/rants/977587/... and I'm wondering what is your reason for not wanting to be tracked or watched?

@Torbuntu I didn't say I wanted to be.

I believe a real world equivalent would be if someone followed you around all the time. Yeah maybe there is nothing interesting going on in your life but you wouldn’t want that person following you around everywhere. Whether they’re digging through your trash, looking in your window, showing up at your workplace, you would get pretty uncomfortable. Even if they don’t do anything to you, you would feel uncomfortable having them around all the time, potentially judging you and such. Same goes for online.

@evalie has already described it pretty well. You could compare mass surveillance / tracking to a person following your every step and writing everything you do in his notebook. I wouldn't want that. Privacy is a human right and mustn't be taken away from you.

With today's technology mass surveillance has become very easy. However this doesn't mean that it is a part of today's technology. The current technology is being abused by governments or companies to track individuals without any reason other than greed.

This is just my opinion but I think @linuxxx can provide you with more reasons

I do think that there are reasons why some people should be 'tracked' (people who have continuously committed crimes for example) but sadly most of the time surveillance happens without any reason.

@evalie @404response
Extension: what if that person's notebook was up for sale? That's how many companies make money now.

But more than just creep factor, there's the whole corruption aspect as well.

What if he gave it to the government/watch groups so they could categorize you and put you on a list, depending on your actions? The government -- doesn't really matter which -- is totally untrustworthy. If you do anything they dislike, and if they have free access to this kind of information, they would have plenty of things that could destroy your image publicly (porn, political leanings, offhand comments, piracy, ...), and potentially charge you with crimes as well. Doesn't matter how minor. Opening your neighbor's mail, even accidentally, is a felony(?). Most people are guilty of several and don't even know it. But with surveillance....

If the state has reason to go after you (legitimate or otherwise), they can, and extremely easily, too.

Have you guys seen "Person of Interest" if so would care for a mass surveilance system like The Machine?

If you haven't seen it, The Machine is an AI that has access to every camera and microphone in the world and the only things that it can do is send social security numbers (or some type of I'd number) of the people who will commit terriost attacks and it has no voice or control the outside world. The Machine has no terminal or anything like that where a person can control it.

@AL1L She is lovely and I wouldn't mind her whatsoever.

However, Samaritan is scary as hell, and that type of ASI seems far more likely.

@Ashkin your probably right about that.