"If it’s on the internet, it isn’t private.”–A. Lincoln (citation needed)

Mark Hurst is a friend with a radio show called Techtonic. His show focuses on humanity's shift into our new digital world. Fascinating stuff. This week he interviews Kashmir Hill about her book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It. It's worth a listen.
Ms. Hill discusses the way privacy rights were built to protect us from government overreach, but today, private companies do most of the tracking. We don't have many laws protecting us from a private company's overreach. (insert James Bond villain plot here) As for privacy from government, they can simply license the information, working around privacy rights.
I thought about this on Tuesday. It was cold in these parts, which kept most of the trick or treaters away, but there were enough of them to dump bags of candy on. As the little goblins and ghouls gathered on my doorstep, eagerly awaiting handfuls of treats, their parents would yell, "Happy Halloween!" from the street.
One time, a young parent said, "say thank you to Mr. Chambers." I looked up, startled. I see a smiling young adult looking back at me and think, "oh man, you look familiar." I felt the heat rising in my cheeks. Who is this again?
At this moment, I thought, "I could really use some facial recognition tech beamed onto my glasses right now." I could look at this happy parent of the neighbor kid dressed at a skeleton, and bleep bloop, confidently say "Oh, hey Sarah! The kids are growing up so fast!"
I understand bad things can happen with tools like this. I know bad things WILL happen with tools like this. But isn't it a small price to pay to alleviate Greg's fleeting moment of discomfort? (the one my neighbor didn't even notice in the freezing cold?)
What could possibly go wrong?
I'll just leave this here:
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