The Right to See with Technology
The Right to See with Technology: Recording, Augmented Perception, and the Constitution
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031895320 | 191 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031895320 | 191 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This book asks if we have a constitutional right to see or sense our surroundings with technology. Do we have a constitutional right to record our surroundings with cameras embedded in smartphones or drones? Or to enhance our vision with extended reality technology, bionic eyes, or brain-computer interfaces? Courts in the United States have already provided a possible foundation for answering such questions. There is, they have said, a right to document matters of public concern by creating and sharing recordings with others. Such recordings extend our perception: They let us watch events that are remote in space and time. Yet sharing them is also a kind of communication and thus, the creation of “speech” protected by the First Amendment. So too might be other ways of seeing with technology. This emerging case law raises interesting questions and challenges, such as how enhancement of our perceptions can leave room for others’ privacy.