Some of the Ottawa Senators players have gotten into some bad media coverage the other week. The seven star players were talking bad about the assistant coach and talking about the penalty kill on how bad it has been. You might be thinking what's wrong with that? Everyone talks about other people behind their backs and if you are reading this and say "that's false, I've never talked behind someones back." You are lying. Well how the professional hockey players got caught and this information came to the surface of attention was because it was filmed by the uber driver with out them knowing. The uber driver put the video up on youtube and then sent it out.
The articles brings up how " The incident, they said, shines a light on the growing ambiguity between public and private spaces as well as the shortcomings of current laws and social practices." So how do we really know now what's really a private space anymore?
Scott Thompson who studies surveillance technologies says "The problem is that with the advance of technology, we’re seeing that it’s more and more difficult to identify spaces in this way,” Thinking you can talk about something but little do you know it is being recored without your permission. The idea of private and public has really changed in meaning.
That is absolutely crazy to think that if I am in an Uber and I am talking to my friend in the back seat, that the driver can legally record what we say and do! Like you said above where is the line drawn here? Yes, Uber themselves can say or implement something, but just that will not stop the problem, there are little loop holes like this everywhere. Is there a simple way to put a stop to things like this? No I don't believe that there is a magic solution to all of this but still there should be some kind of general law put in place to somewhat keep peoples personal conversations private. Like in this case you showed above how were they supposed to know that they were being recorded? They had no way of knowing and no way of stopping it. What if this video was the other way around? What if the guy that posted the video had the same thing happen to him without his knowledge? Would he be ok with that? Probably not!
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