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Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls
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I am going to repeat myself forever it seems. We got it wrong when we decided that you only have privacy when someone can't physically see what you are up to. Nothing else is treated this way. You are not allowed to drive as fast as your car can physically move. You are not allowed to go into anything locked as long as you are able to pick it. You are not allowed to steal whatever you want as long as no one tackles you for it. And yet somehow some way it became understood that merely because someone can get a photo of you they have the legal right to do so.
As if access to better technology means you should follow less moral rules vs the opposite. Someone with a junk camera of the 80s can do far less perving compared to the new cameras+drones out there.
What jurisdiction is this true? There are certainly times that there is an expectation of privacy and getting a photo of you would be illegal. Easy example: and owner of a store can't photo you in the dressing room, the even tho they could put a camera in there. It's the same thing here, there is an expectation of privacy in your home (or for many enclosed and private spaces), so this kind of "picture" would likely already be a violation.
Just about all of them where the government is spying on their residents. Unless you think it's alright if the government does it?
The poster made the claim:
And now you're talking about the government spying. Total non sequitur that has nothing to do with what I was discussing.
The posters claim goes a bit further than just "can get a photo of you". The poster originally mentions (and it's integral to the point) that privacy shouldn't be predicated on the idea that so long as you are behind closed doors (ie not in view) you have the expectation of privacy. You deliberately narrowed the scope. But please understand that technically my car and the contents thereof are covered by a right to privacy. To search my car lawfully in the US you'd require a warrant. Doesn't matter if my car is parked on the street. But you could lawfully take a photo of me in that car pretty much anywhere in "public" and that would also be considered lawful. So, what exactly is the demarcation? Where is the line drawn and doesn't that seem rather arbitrary?
The context of the poster you responded to's point is that the government decides and makes a line between what is private and what isn't. And that's further defined and enforced by laws. When you take into account the number of tools governments the world over have developed to spy on their citizens and just how many of those are then made available to or leaked to the public, and further that some of them being used in public are perfectly legal that poster has a point. We did not draw the line in the sand the right way.
The poster said nothing about the state. They were talking about privacy. They gave a long list of things that we aren't allowed to do even if we are "able" to do them, and then made the false claim that we are allowed to take pictures "just because we can." Maybe they have beliefs about the line being in the wrong place for other things, but this submission is about a type of picture, and the poster specifically mentioned taking pictures. So me talking about picture makes perfect sense, bringing in the state searching your car makes next to zero sense.
The poster said absolutely zero about the state. None. Zilch. Zip. When you accused me of narrowing the scope, you were actually projecting your expansion of the scope.
But make no mistake about it, if a cop walks by your car and sees a dead body in the back seat, they don't need to get a warrant to search your car...because there is no expectation of privacy...which is, of course, actually what we are talking about.