Privacy in the Circle
Eamon Bailey: Mae’s only been with us for a few months but she has made quite an impression. So Mae, do you think you behave better or worse when you’re being watched?
The movie The Circle talks about the need to communicate, to share our lives and to see to know. It is a new way of technology to keep us informed of whatever we want and to see whomever we feel like. It is like stalking made legal and available to everyone. It also works for security, but where does the line end? Where is the limit? Should we be allowed to know everything?
Eamon Bailey: Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better.
Information may be power but do we need it to live? If we are being watched all the time, can we be our true selves?
John Locke talks about human rights as the right to live, education and property. Our lives belong to us and it is our right to share them, but to know others’ lives, is it also a right? Keeping things private is our own right to be handled by us.
Ty Lafitte: I didn’t create this. This isn’t what I had in mind. Things at the Circle, they need to change. Everything’s recorded, seen, broadcast, stored and analyzed here. They can use it however they see fit, not matter what its cost.
Whenever we have an emergency, we can be sure that someone is always watching, but at what cost? If secrets are lies, we are able to act without masks? If we lack ethics, we can use this information to manipulate, stalk and violate human rights by watching inside people’s own privacy.
We need to communicate, but at what cost? Craving knowledge is a natural human tendency, but at what cost? Do we really need to know what our neighbour is doing? Do we really feel it’s necesary?
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