Flutterby™! : Flock cameras

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is.

Worth reading through, and especially as the author notes the asymmetry of information, that Flock, and thence police departments, have a stronger historical record of your travels than you do. Making me think (and re-think) some of those old "quantified self" thoughts again.

Via Elf Sternberg.