Social media has led to the loss of privacy in the offline world, as historical norms around privacy and respect have been replaced with a paparazzi-like expectation of privilege to film anyone anywhere for any reason and broadcast it to the world.
When it comes to the death of privacy in the digital era, most of the focus turns to the myriad ways in which the surveillance state of social media’s ad-driven empire mines and profiles us. Yet these digital dossiers represent just a portion of the privacy puzzle that has forever changed in a world defined by smartphones and live-streaming.
In our era of omnipresent smartphone cameras and live-streaming, there is little left that is off limits to sharing with the world. Upset that someone didn’t pick up after their dog? Chase them down the street live-streaming with your smartphone and stand in front of their home broadcasting their address to the world.
See an exhausted janitor juggling four jobs taking a brief nap on the bus on their way to their next work? Capture a gallery of them sleeping in their uniform, then post to social media and tag their employer, pretending you saw them asleep at work and see if you can get them fired just for fun. We are all now citizen’s auxiliaries, granted the right to barge into any rules infraction, no matter how small or large and name and shame.We are gifted the ability to photograph any innocent person going about their business and subject them to global ridicule just because of their differing physical abilities.
The town stocks are back in full force today, but now they are global. Even young children are not spared, with schoolyard bullying now transformed into global humiliation.
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