
What is considered an invasion of human privacy?
Does your automobile have a “black box” otherwise known as a vehicular event data recorder
(EDR)? They have been built into 25 million U.S. manufactured cars so far. The EDR is
standard in all General Motors and some Ford automobiles. If you are in an accident, the
police are now using the data in the EDR to determine who was at fault.
Is this an invasion of privacy?
One man was convicted of vehicular manslaughter for killing two teenage girls in Florida after
his 2002 Pontiac Trans Am’s EDR showed that he was driving at 104 mph at the time of the
collision.
Was that an invasion of his privacy?
Answer:
The concern for human privacy has gone down as the dominant force appears to now be
human society, not the individual human. Human society is becoming increasingly
dependent on the robots and related machinery. The human is becoming less important in
the scheme of things and human rights to privacy are now often viewed as a weakness in the
defense against terrorist threats. The power of individual human beings is on a steep and
rapid decline. Individual human privacy is dying as a result of that decrease in power.
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