Facing multiple-choice questions of privacy and survival, it is always difficult to have a correct answer. But whatever the choice is, the result is the same. Privacy and surveillance are interdependent and related to each other. It is precise because everyone has the meaning of privacy and surveillance, and it is also because of surveillance that privacy can not be a bad secret act. As mentioned in the first news, we ’ve begun to understand that “privacy” policies are practically surveillance policies.
If one day you stole your wallet in the store, what was your first reaction when you found it? Must be watching surveillance. If the surveillance happens to capture the offender at a good angle, you will appreciate the existence of this surveillance. Another example is that you have downloaded a lot of interesting apps on your phone. When you want to use them, you ca n’t use it without passing the personal permissions required by the app. So in a way, you passively agreed, but soon these interesting apps will make you forget about the permission decisions you made, including some uncomfortable feelings. The pleasure and enjoyment of using apps often exceed people’s desire to protect privacy. As mentioned in the first news, We have imagined that we can choose our degree of privacy with an individual calculation in which a bit of personal information is traded for valued services — a reasonable quid pro quo. In other words, to get a convenient service and enjoy the experience, people need to actively surrender some privacy. Therefore, I think that people’s different views on privacy and surveillance are largely due to their emotions.
Think again, when you are running out of time for trains, fast facial recognition systems and electronic tickets allow you to catch the trains in the fastest time, then you will be glad that these technologies exist. Everyone is using monitoring power unintentionally or being monitored. The difference is how people feel about their emotions when they realize it. The emotions generated by the first reaction often determine people’s views on a certain thing. If they feel nauseous, depressed, and uncomfortable, they will firmly defend their privacy rights, such as illegal videotaping and monitoring. If they are happy and enjoyable, they will appreciate the existence of surveillance technology. So I think that whether people can accept surveillance or future development has a lot to do with their consciousness or emotions when they come into contact with surveillance. The news mentioned the most predictive data from the intervening behavior, tuned, modified, and modified actions in the direction of commercial objects. I think that emotions appeared before behaviors. Emotions are the driving force that affects people’s behaviors, and it is also the most complicated grasp point. What may need to be discussed in future monitoring is still the same as mentioned in the second news. To decide how much we as a society want to be spied on by governments and corporations — and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives. The impact is the emotions that directly affect people and then indirectly affect people’s behavior until life. So I think to find the balance between privacy and surveillance, and mastering emotions is very important.
One more thing, the views on Confucianism. Confucianism is the school that emphasizes moral self-cultivation. Mr. Feng Youlan, a famous contemporary philosopher and educator in China, once said that the greatest task of Confucianism is to cultivate adults and achieve noble morality. This is not harmful in itself, but it emphasizes the rule of virtue too much. Ignoring the rule of law will lead to a lack of institutions at the institutional level. In the third article, when referring to the face culture and monitoring culture of Confucianism, he believed that the “surveillance” culture was fundamentally important and the “functions” of the “traditional” concepts. I don’t quite agree with it. We all know the upper limit of moral management and the bottom line of the rule of law. Confucianism only advocates the upper limit, and there is no lower limit. In today’s fast-developing society, some shortcomings and deficiencies will soon be exposed. So I think maybe it is not the change caused by monitoring culture, people’s consciousness is constantly changing, this is the inevitable result of the development of society.
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