So, I'm absentmindedly watching a "reality" show while answering emails--certainly not like any fucking "reality" I've ever experienced. I won't tell you which one because it's totally emasculating and by pure, honest, circumstance; but what caught my attention was how the producers blurred out people's faces who were inadvertently photographed in public while making the show. I get it--it's a copyright kinda thing and they don't have permission to use an individual's personal likeness for profit, but seriously? Who doesn't have a cell phone that does the same thing? Who doesn't have a Go-Pro on their dash? Who doesn't have tablets, and watches, and eyeglasses that can record and immediately upload that shit to public media? People are surveilled by all sorts of law enforcement cameras every day. I get it, it's for safety and not for public consumption-yada yada yada, but still. Establishments with decent security will not let you bring in a camera, but you can bring your cell phone. What? That would be inconvenient as hell if you had to give up your cell phone, but don't bring a camera in here. Nooooo.. I ask: In the last 10 years has there ever been a cell phone invented with no camera? Yet, these things happen. They defy logic, reason, and any type of even the most minor scrutiny, and go unchallenged because no one is using the grey matter between their ears. It begs the question: wtf? Are we taking this "privacy" shit seriously or not? If so, let's do this. If, not, quit being a minor inconvenience that does nothing and wastes the time of the authorities and the subjected. It's absurd. Fucking blurred faces.... Grrrr...
