No You Do Not Have A Right To Privacy

The fear of having your own private affairs used against you is one thing. The fear of having your ugly behaviours exposed is another.

The technology to see and to hear everything everywhere is surely here: all that's missing is the decision to install it. Everybody and everywhere is the point - it means that not only your own private affairs and uglinesses are on camera, but also (what you're concerned about) those who would 'spy' on you, crush you (governments, competitors, embezzlers), they are themselves on film; you cannot escape the camera and the microphone, none of you. Surely the technology is already there?

Of course our behaviour then changes; And what a sea-change.

It all begins right here surely - my right to know what I'm letting myself in for overrules your 'right' to privacy doesn't it? Surely I trump you? If I'm about to date you, I have a right to know whether you have a history of cheating on your man, don't I? If you want to rent my apartment, I have a right to know whether you have a history of never quite managing, somehow, to find the necessary monies over the Christmas period surely. And don't I have a right to closed-circuit television protection in every corner of every street and building? If a working-class is angry cos its 'bird' has does something, and 'yeah I'd 'ad a few pints adn't I', and throws a punch at a passing Cambridge academic, well, surely, that academic must be casually guaranteed its imprisonment. Surely? Stands to reason.

And your 'private' life'? Look, I know it's hard. You've become used to a 'right' to privacy. But remember surely that you are a small tribe product. Until recently everyone lived in a small group. You've become who you are through an ancestry that lived in small tribes haven't you? I knew you in the tribe. I knew everything about you. That you can now mix in a city of many, and remain unseen, and get away with ugly actions or (understandably) avoid harm from those privy to private information, is a very recent thing indeed isn't it.

Your claims that universal knowledge is quite impossible to implement at the moment are quite irrelevant of course. It's your reaction to the idea that is being questioned.