When I try to analyze (or perhaps rationalize) what triggers my anger at some of these things, it often comes down to distributed autonomy and scale, rather than recognition per se.
The problem isn't that individual people/cameras might have good memories. If the local mini-mart can call up a list of all my visits, purchases, and camera-footage of what car I arrived in, that's... icky but acceptable.
The violation and danger occurs when everybody/thing gets turned into a massive hivemind, and someone can trivially combine observations from all those individual entities to make a constant video of my entire day outside my dwelling. That's a qualitatively different level of (un-)privacy that people do not expect.
Ideally this information should be siloed except with a conscious decision by the neighbor/store/etc. in response to a particularized request. For example, "please share with me information from time X to Y of anyone running from place Z."
When I try to analyze (or perhaps rationalize) what triggers my anger at some of these things, it often comes down to distributed autonomy and scale, rather than recognition per se.
The problem isn't that individual people/cameras might have good memories. If the local mini-mart can call up a list of all my visits, purchases, and camera-footage of what car I arrived in, that's... icky but acceptable.
The violation and danger occurs when everybody/thing gets turned into a massive hivemind, and someone can trivially combine observations from all those individual entities to make a constant video of my entire day outside my dwelling. That's a qualitatively different level of (un-)privacy that people do not expect.
Ideally this information should be siloed except with a conscious decision by the neighbor/store/etc. in response to a particularized request. For example, "please share with me information from time X to Y of anyone running from place Z."