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When I'm a place I have a right to be looking at something I can see with my eyes, I can take a picture of that thing and I can do what I want with that picture
by superuser2 11y ago
When I'm a place I have a right to be looking at something I can see with my eyes, I can take a picture of that thing and I can do what I want with that picture. The courts have validated this again and again as a facet of my right to free speech.
To ban this kind of surveillance you need to take the extremely authoritarian step of telling me I am legally obligated to forget what I saw, to not record it, to not speak of it. You have claimed ownership for the state of he photons landing near my camera, and are now trying to hold me to a license agreement on their use. This is an unconstitutional violation of my freedom.
ANPR comes from an abundance of freedom, not a shortage.
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoThe surveillance isn't the issue, the database is. None of my privacy is compromised when a random person remembers seeing my car at a pharmacy at a specific time. It's completely violated when you collect a list of everywhere anyone has seen it in the last six months.
- superuser2 11y agoSure, but if you attempt to criminialize my recording of said observation in a shared database, you are violating my freedom of speech to protect your privacy. It's not immediately clear which is worse.