Why is the PRISM story going to disappear within...
Why is the PRISM story going to disappear within two weeks?
30,000+ people die in cars every year in the US. We don't care. We get into cars every day. We really don't care about this threat. Even though the consequences are MUCH worse than anything PRISM does. The good of driving outweighs the bad of death, etc.
PRISM hasn't killed anyone (that I know of) and possibly has saved us from harm. We really don't care about our loss of privacy (I see it every day as I look around at everyone using grocery store loyalty cards, credit cards, and hand over a ton of data to big companies from Casinos to Hotels to social networks).
We are still headed into an Age of Context where systems are going to use our private data to see new patterns and help us live our lives and companies will use that contextual data to serve us better. And governments will continue to use them to spy on us (aka try to catch terrorists). Either way, the good far outweighs the bad. So we will continue to push into the future. This week will just be a slight speedbump.
Anyway, where were you all when cameras started appearing everywhere taking photos of people running red lights in San Francisco?
Truth is, we give away our liberties and privacy all the time. The Golden Gate Bridge just turned on cameras that capture everyone's license plate. Do we care? No, because now getting across the bridge is one to 15 minutes faster.
I just can't see the story lasting more than two weeks.
Do you disagree? Why?