The War on Privacy 🚫

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Because of technologies like Flock's AI surveillance cameras, people are thinking about the right to privacy again. This video explores how we've lost our privacy to corporations and the government, but also how we willingly gave it away.

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The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
The Right to Oblivion by Lowry Pressly
'The Right to Privacy' by Warren and Brandeis: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTYO7ib-cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoEQg1M92_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/66162/1/we-all-know-too-much-about-each-other

00:00 The War on Privacy
01:20 Why Privacy Matters
06:11 "What do you have to hide?"
07:50 Corporate Surveillance
16:13 Flock
22:33 "You can't take a breath in this town"
24:07 Privacy as a Human Right