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To me, the overarching point is we would not be talking about this if phones with cameras (and feeling it's okay to film another human without their permission)
by losteverything 9y ago
To me, the overarching point is we would not be talking about this if phones with cameras (and feeling it's okay to film another human without their permission)
We always seem to whip out our phones as novice reporters anytime we feel like it.
It's not privacy that matters it anonymity.
- dpark 9y ago> It's not privacy that matters it anonymity. Anonymity is a form of privacy. And in this case, the recording eliminated both privacy and anonymity, neither of which are guaranteed or expected in a public setting.
- losteverything 9y agoBefore phones I expected to never be photographed. I could go anywhere and think nobody knows I'm here. It's a different world, that's all. We can't turn back. At any instant you could become an innocent photo-revealee. Just avoid being in sight of the vertically held phone..