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Humans behave better when they’re being watched (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 day ago by francois@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”

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[–] jwt@programming.dev 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Not better; different. They behave the way the people doing the watching want them to behave. Whether that's better is purely situational, and that (among others) is why global surveillance is a bad idea.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

+1. I think what it does, is enforce conformity. Even without authoritarians, there is still a form of tyranny from group pressure. Ppl become less willing to oppose the majority under total surveilence.

Sometimes, the majority gets things right. Other times, not so much. History is filled with examples. We need room for our MLK Jrs, our Ghandis, our Schindlers, to oppose the norms.