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There's plenty of precedent here, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street in the US[1]. Now, that doesn't automatically mean your argume
by blacksmith_tb 8y ago
There's plenty of precedent here, there's no reasonable expectation of privacy on a public street in the US[1]. Now, that doesn't automatically mean your argument can't stand, but it becomes a quantitative one - random people snapping your picture in passing are not equivalent to the city bureau of planning feeding all that camera data to ML (unless Google / IG / etc. start picking you out of all those random photos... but I digress). Clearly the biggest experiment of this kind has been in Britain[2], no pesky 4th Amendment there, but the outcome doesn't seem to be entirely positive or negative.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy#Overvie...
2: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveillance-camera-for-every-11-people-in-Britain-says-CCTV-survey.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveill...
- TACIXAT 8y agoI get that there is no expectation of privacy in public, but there is a huge difference in someone maybe snapping a picture of me in the background of their Snapchat story, and the city recording my license plate on every block. One may place me at a single place and time, and will likely never see the outside of that person's photo app, the other can effectively track me wherever I go. Legal precedent really has nothing to do with how we feel about an issue.
- godelski 8y agoI would say that one is an accident (snapping someone in the background), or rather there was no real intent. The latter is stalking.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoTrue, but we'd need to pass new laws to prevent it, right now it's perfectly legal for the city to be doing it, that was all I meant.