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I think people who live in a crime ridden neighborhood would, in many cases, be supportive if the cameras reduced crime. I believe the practical reality is tha
by HillaryBriss 11y ago
I think people who live in a crime ridden neighborhood would, in many cases, be supportive if the cameras reduced crime.
I believe the practical reality is that, in most places where video security cameras are ubiquitous (e.g. London), the vast majority of the recorded footage is never viewed by anyone and is not archived. There's too much of it and it's too boring.
- DanBC 11y agoAlthough London also has extensive car number-plate reading technology so they don't need to store the video, they can just store the rats nest of hits of vehicles travelling around.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoThanks for pointing that out. This does take matters to a different level because someone will surely hack such a nifty DB of license plates, times and locations (if they haven't already). But even so, there's a legitimate policy debate to be had about the value of such a DB vis a vis its riskiness to individual privacy. Unfortunately, that's the difficult world we live in. Medical records have been hacked. Voter records have been hacked. And yet, somehow, societies have continued to compile and update them.