The difference is that with a human near by I feel like I am being judged and when they are not I do not feel that kind of pressure. The grocery store I've gone to my whole life has always had security cameras tracking people for reasons I assume to deal with theft. It does not effect me at all and the store has useful data that they can use. It benefits all parties.
>The difference is that with a human near by I feel like I am being judged and when they are not I do not feel that kind of pressure
I will offer you another perspective to consider.
Technology is extremely subversive in that it bypasses all of our brain's instinctual responses. Someone or something monitoring and tracking you should be setting off warning sirens in your brain. At best they are trying to study you, at worse they are trying to exploit or harm you.
Through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution our brains have built up warning systems to make us feel fear and unease when we realise we are being tracked. But since humans have spent 99.99% of evolution entirely in the physical world these systems have no concept of the digital.
The reason you feel extremely uneasy when being monitored by a person, but not when being monitored by a computer system that is collecting the exact same information (or more), is that your subconscious brain doesn't understand computers.
>our brains have built up warning systems to make us feel fear and unease when we realise we are being tracked
>The reason you feel extremely uneasy when being monitored by a person
I don't though. If someone walked up to me and asked me what my favorite color was and they wrote it down I don't feel any negative feeling.
Even if it was a true thing just because we have a warning system that doesn't mean that something is actually bad. Tracking just gives people more information to allow for better decisions to be made and it can make things more efficient.
