Comments on: Function Creep 101: Surveillance Cameras and Social Norms http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/30/function-creep-101-surveillance-cameras-and-social-norms/ information ethics : new media : privacy : values in design : 2.0 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/30/function-creep-101-surveillance-cameras-and-social-norms/comment-page-1/#comment-68364 Michael Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:07:14 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/30/function-creep-101-surveillance-cameras-and-social-norms/#comment-68364 [Simon Winter had trouble posting this comment, so he sent it to me via e-mail -mz] I think another major aspect of this is the erosion of human judgement. Judgement and the subjective "feeling" of being right and wrong is very important for a society. Children and adolescents spend lots of time training their judgement. However, with the increasing use of objective "evidence" like surveillance cameras in everyday life, this judgement is likely to erode. -Simon Winter, Växjö, Sweden [Simon Winter had trouble posting this comment, so he sent it to me via e-mail -mz]

I think another major aspect of this is the erosion of human judgement. Judgement and the subjective “feeling” of being right and wrong is very important for a society. Children and adolescents spend lots of time training their judgement. However, with the increasing use of objective “evidence” like surveillance cameras in everyday life, this judgement is likely to erode.

-Simon Winter, Växjö, Sweden

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