[Medium] Those poor Hong Kong protesters, how do they ever find ways to outwit the surveillance around them? Americans like to think of China as some police state in the making, but few of us realize how facial recognition and video surveillance will also scale back home.Orwell’s 1984 is really about now, it’s about today. It’s about the kind of world we want to live in.
Increasingly the technology is outpacing the idea that humans deserve a few liberties like free speech, privacy, freedom of expression and a few other little things, like human rights.
We should be able to control our data and have the portability of our friends online. If we don’t like Facebook, we should have the ability to port our friends elsewhere. The internet was supposed to be a tool for us, not the other way around.
Sadly, we don’t live in such a world.