Embarrassment forever

EMBARRASSMENT FOREVER
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Jim Louderback, PC magazine]
[Commentary] Everyone wants their 15 seconds of fame, but from now on it's more likely to be 15 seconds of embarrassment -- and it will live online forever. YouTube, pervasive cell-phone video cameras, and even newer technologies are conspiring to foster an environment where nothing is private. Today's Internet and the powerful computers that feed it mercilessly record everything they see and hear and store those recordings forever. Breakthrough technologies debut and quickly spread, without regard to how they might be misused. Take headcasting, for example. It's now possible for anyone to staple a tiny wireless camera to their head and broadcast their life 24 hours a day. Or Twitter, which lets anyone send the most banal thoughts instantly to anyone's computer or phone in the world. Forget "Candid Camera;" it's likely that you're live now, and recorded forever for posterity.
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