A film maker had to have one of his eyes removed as a result of a childhood shooting accident. He is now working with engineers to design a camera inside of a prosthetic eye and make a film. The fake eye is intended to move along with the real eye by muscle control. Subjects will be filmed without their knowledge, but permission must be obtained if they are used in the film.
The implications are enormous:
1) The most obvious is one of privacy. This is not a new issue.
When you meet someone, you have an expectation of privacy.
You don't expect a "cyborg" that will remember everything and have
the ability to play back everything you just said, though I'm sure
lawyers would love to have that ability for their clients.
Covert filming is not a new problem, but camera placement usually
was in eyeglasses or a bag or briefcase.
2) The other big issue is how long before they can connect camera output
to the rest of the body systems? They talk about eventually restoring
vision to blind people, but I'm sure true vision connected to the optic nerve
is decades away.
3) One more issue I have actually thought about before is "recording your life history".
A first-person point of view of your entire life. No more forgetting.
Just play it back. Memory is now cheap enough that you could actually
consider recording your entire waking life. It would only take a few TeraByte,
depending on what compression you would be willing to settle on.
I'm OK not filming while I'm asleep. I was shocked the other day in Costco
when I saw an 1.0 TB external USB hard drive for $140 dollars!
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