November 27, 2003
Smile, we are all on "Candid Camera."
A thoughtful and well written article on today's world and the privacy infringements that occur with the advent of the Internet, videos, and digital cameras by Richard Cohen for The Washington Post.
Camera phones are not the essence of this article, but the role they are bound to play down the road in terms of our privacy is sure coming.
Cohen compares the "burglarizing" of both Paris Hilton and Michael Jackson personas, because their personal lives have been invidaded by tapes that exist -- or purportedly exist.
"The sense we all once had that we are secure in our own person is gone, probably irrevocably so. Espionage has been democratized."
And sadly with the prevelance of all these new technologies, "we could all be robbed of a commodity that we all value -- the face we think we show the world". Just like Paris Hilton and Michael Jackson.
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