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If the surveillance leads to the prompt arrest of violent criminals, it may be a good thing. I expect privacy in my home, not while on the sidewalk.
by Bostonian 7y ago
If the surveillance leads to the prompt arrest of violent criminals, it may be a good thing. I expect privacy in my home, not while on the sidewalk.
- landcoctos 7y agoWhat if cameras follow you on every trip you make to/from your home. Are you ok with a blotter on all your movements?
- andreilys 7y agoRelated: Surveillance Camera Man on Youtube who films people without their permission in public - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5ZVPwP7bg&t= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5ZVPwP7bg&t=
- motohagiography 7y agoThe cameras ensure criminals don't have to worry about law abiding people fighting back.
- MrZongle2 7y agoColor me cynical, but the surveillance is really just for the post-mortem and to justify additional future spending on surveillance.
- shadowprofile77 7y agoNobody does have an expectation of basic privacy on the sidewalk and they never have, from mutually disconnected agents like watching neighbors, random photographers, the occasional store camera etc.... The argument isn't even about these things. It's being watched by a vast interconnected network of AI-monitored facial recognition cameras that all feed into a centrally readable series of government databases which are cross referenced with other personal records of people (that can also, by the way, be hacked) and is also sold to bigcorps for intrusive, constant monetization that is a whole different order of privacy violation in any public space. This is what saying you have no expectation of privacy in public completely misses the larger point about... The latter is a much more terrifying prospect and it's well on its way.
- homonculus1 7y agoExactly, with the progress of technology we need to codify more nuanced concepts of degrees of privacy to protect the individual from powerful institutions. The standard of "no expectation of privacy in public" was developed at a time when universal surveillance was unthinkable, there is no reason that it should permanently remain the limit for putting constraints on surveillance.