@Traktion Yes privacy is the default position. But we may either be evolving toward more openness or our minds may already be more open than than we like to think. And consider some of the scifi stuff we are on the edge of right now.
There is some demonstrated tech that works with types of aphasia that picks up the EM emanations that would innervate the vocal musculature- in short picks up the sublingualization that leaks into this process and runs it through modified speech recognition yielding a device that could be part of glasses that would pick up speech from that leaky analog process whether we were speaking or not. I can see millions of people wearing these on their heads and leaving them on all the time. Presumably there might be some search with AI like features riding on top of that, linking people in real time to silent conversations past present and anticipated- silent because they’d have pass through ear buds as well. A good bit would get lost in translation but there would be enough in similar scifi scenarios to triangulate things out of the heads of some people who shunning these systems- almost a guilt by association.
There is a thread on this site proposing decision or probability trees that would be applied to reputation to consider the degrees of freedom for prevalence for input on trust-ability to weed out shills, that same type of logic could be applied to a Watson debater type front end to cull ideas and hypotheticals regarding individuals and events based on all the cataloged speech. That may well be what a system like Total Information Awareness is already doing in listening to our phone calls. Imagine if that dumped into the transparency side of system like SAFE.
Think also of the outing of General Petreaus as the US director of intelligence over his own emails, betrayed for public shaming by his own agency. Think of John Kerry recently suggesting that living with increasing transparency will make governance more difficult. Consider Assange, Snowden, Manning, and all the others, even Greenwald. Consider also Zuckerberg, who thinks that people are just going to have to get used to living without privacy- a murderous tyrannical idea if ever there was one. Look at the Sony leak and successive prior hacks- although in that case I suspect Sony as having done it to itself to try to further SOPA, PIPA,CISPA TPP, ACTA, NDAA (riders.)
Consider Microsoft’s Xbox One Kinnect 2, it can track your heart beat and determine if you are actually looking at a side bar ad and by correlating the two drive up the cost of the ads. If Kinect 2 ever catches on and makes it into more living rooms… who else will be looking through those cameras? Consider shows like “Person of Interest.” A government type develops a working AI and tries to use it to find patterns to right corruption. Being ethical he designs it so it will only point law enforcement in the right direction by pointing out the right people but not provide details. Unfortunately the tech itself leaks out and another groups builds a much bigger system with no safe guards for much and more invasive full scale AI aided search. Stuff like TIA will be turned around on its developers, its part of our as responsible public(s) in watching these often self appointed watchers.
Some old legal type formulas would seem to apply. Low risk is license and invites wanton reckless results- dirty hand results. Regulation or higher risk yields caution. The degree of precaution will be governed by the
the amount of damage a failure would cause. Its the long tail, its not new, you see it in bridge design, the weight of the possible catastrophe merits large expenditures and efforts. Most dirty hand stuff can domino yielding waves of failure and damage if its not stopped. Normally more dirty hand stuff will be used to stop a leak but not with SAFE. The same tech that SAFE would provide to keep huge amounts of data safe is possibly even much more resistant in its transparency DAO format which might as well be thought of as worse than broadcast as it will be totally persistent and instantly globally disseminated and searchable.
On the input side one could design keys (inefficient as pointed out by Seneca and also impractical as using the keys is almost a leak in itself) that required two or more people present with simultaneous key entry etc., but those same people could be compromised or held at gun point and the genie and its domino effect would be out of the bottle. There won’t be a way to spin this. Dirty hand players that want to make Machiavellian tactics more palatable for the public have tried in Hollywood and spent their ‘political capital’ and it failed. The premise of the show 24 seemed meant to put forward the foolish ticking time bomb scenarios and in later seasons it seemed to be railing against it. The public rejects this stuff.
The transparency side will be enormously empowering for the public, at the same time firms like Google can and must be prevented from putting other people’s data for profit (especially) or otherwise in such a container. The key is that what is being done has to work in the public’s interest. Either way elite status loses. I hope this alone is enough to kill of hereditary power and the idiocy that measures that limit it are ‘death taxes’ instead of seeing gross hereditary wealth (billions) as the enslavement of others.