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There's nothing in the article that implies they're going to be making audio recordings of customer conversations. They're using existing surveillance cameras,
by imgabe 7y ago
There's nothing in the article that implies they're going to be making audio recordings of customer conversations. They're using existing surveillance cameras, so even if that were possible, it's already been the status quo.
Do you have an expectation of privacy in regard to whether your drink got refilled when you're at a restaurant? I should hope not.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoWhen I was child, you simply didn't have the kind of ubiquitous cheap tech you have now. You didn't need to worry that anyone would photograph you or record you and publish it for free via a medium -- the internet -- that could reach millions of people. It's a slippery slope. Arguing this small thing doesn't matter and that small thing doesn't matter ends up having consequences down the line. When I was a child, yes, you had a completely reasonable expectation that no one was going to record anything you did at a restaurant. And our sense of privacy has fundamentally changed with the rise of the ability to record and broadcast things so readily and easily. My comment was not about the article per se. My comment was about a sweeping statement that I don't agree with.
- imgabe 7y agoI don't know how old you are, but I was a kid in the 80s. There were surveillance cameras then. The society page in the newspaper is even older and that consists mainly of taking pictures of people at restaurants and publishing them in the local newspaper.
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- DoreenMichele 7y agoSociety pages were considered shocking when they first came out and generally were pictures of famous people, not random nobodies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_reporting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_reporting
- imgabe 7y agoI'm just pointing out that it was always possible for someone to take your picture in a restaurant. And even to publish it in the newspaper if they wanted to. In the future, as in the past, there is no reason for anyone to do this if you aren't a celebrity. Lots of things were controversial when they came out. People thought cameras would steal your soul at first. Time moves on and it becomes commonplace.