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It's very unclear to me what the legality of these hidden cameras is and what our recourse can be. https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-wiretapping-laws-your-cel
by olivermarks 8y ago
It's very unclear to me what the legality of these hidden cameras is and what our recourse can be.
https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-wiretapping-laws-your-cell-phone-is-a-felony-machine/ https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-wiretapping-laws-your-cel...
Individual US citizens are tightly restricted in what they can record and how they declare those recordings to targets, surely the state (without judicial wire tap authorization warrants about specific targets) should be in the same boat?
- cronix 8y agoThere is no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in public view, ie a public street. They are just images, which anybody can legally take with a camera (as long as it's not pointing up and looking up skirts!). We've got it going on here in Oregon, too, courtesy of Amazon and our largest populated County. There is a city in Florida using the same Amazon tech, but I don't remember which one. https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/05/22/amazon-sold-powerful-facial-recognition-software-to-the-washington-county-sheriff-and-gresham-police/ https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/05/22/amazon-sold-pow...
- DenisM 8y agoAFAIK this only applies to audio, not video recording. In Seattle area there was a story recently where police accidentally recorded audio along with video during a prostitution sting operation and had to drop the charges against the affected suspects. My guess is that they thought they only needed the video to convict, so they decided to not get the wiretap warrant
- pdkl95 8y agoLegality isn't a concern to groups that use the despicable, fraudulent practice of "parallel construction"[1] (aka "evidence laundering"). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction