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the public generally,’ cannot be stretched to authorize police officers to videotape
everyone at a public gathering just because a visiting little old lady from
Dubuque ... could do so. There is a quantum difference between a police officer
and the little old lady (or other tourist or private citizen) videotaping or
photographing a public event.” 80
The court expressed concern about a chilling of speech and political activities
if authorities were videotaping public events. But police surveillance becomes
moot when an army of little old ladies from Dubuque is naturally videotaping
and sharing nearly everything—protests, scenes inside a mall (such that
amateur video exists of a random shootout in a Salt Lake City, Utah, mall), 81 or
picnics in the park. Peer-leveraging technologies are overstepping the boundaries
that laws and norms have defined as public and private, even as they are
also facilitating beneficial innovation. Cheap processors, networks, and sensors
enable a new form of beneficial information flow as citizen reporters can provide
footage and frontline analysis of newsworthy events as they happen. 82 For
example, OhmyNews is a wildly popular online newspaper in South Korea
with citizen-written articles and reports. (Such writers provide editors with
their names and national identity numbers so articles are not anonymous.)
Similarly, those who might commit atrocities within war zones can now be surveilled
and recorded by civilians so that their actions may be watched and ultimately
punished, a potential sea change for the protection of human rights. 83
For privacy, peer-leveraging technologies might make for a much more constrained
world rather than the more chaotic one that they have wrought for intellectual
property. More precisely, a world where bits can be recorded, manipulated,
and transmitted without limitation means, in copyright, a free-for-all
for the public and constraint upon firms (and perhaps upstream artists) with
content to protect. For privacy, the public is variously creator, beneficiary, and
victim of the free-for-all. The constraints—in the form of privacy invasion that
Jeffrey Rosen crystallizes as an “unwanted gaze”—now come not only from the
well-organized governments or firms of Privacy 1.0, but from a few people generatively
drawing upon the labors of many to greatly impact rights otherwise
guaranteed by a legal system.
Privacy and Reputation
At each layer where a generative pattern can be discerned, this book has asked
whether there is a way to sift out what we might judge to be bad generative results
from the good ones without unduly damaging the system’s overall generativity.
This is the question raised at the technical layer for network security, at