All eyes on you

摘要

With the advent of nearly omnipotent video surveillance, the age-old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words," scares me more today than it ever has. Many highways and most major metropolitan areas are largely covered by video, and thousands of homes have video surveillance. Guess what? The vast majority of this material is uploaded to the internet. My four "digital native" children take pictures and video all the time to send to friends, solve problems through crowd-sourcing, or just record for recall at a later time. Needless to say, there have been several high-profile court cases that were heavily swayed by, you got it, video, many times recorded by an innocent bystander.