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It’s a genuine concern. If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party, you’re building an incredible paper trail of every minor infraction.

There’s a whole bunch of “crimes” that society just kinda ignored at scale. Eg underage drinking in college. People knowingly and willingly speed when it’s against the law. Imagine if your smart car automatically recorded and stored its speed and gps coordinates at all times? It’d be so easy for the government to automatically subscribe to that data and start sending automated tickets… nevermind all the worse things that can happen.

This data can be manipulated and abused by stalkers and hackers, abusive partners controlling their wives or kids, churches trying to guilt you into behaving differently, etc.




> If you are constantly recording your life, and sharing it with a third party

Which is why the very first sentence of my post includes the phrase "self-hosted"




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