> this is an unavoidable part of having public spaces in society. Maybe, maybe not. It is something new - within the last twenty years or so - to the concept o

> this is an unavoidable part of having public spaces in society. Maybe, maybe not. It is something new - within the last twenty years or so - to the concept of either "privacy" or "public space". Laws and norms and people's intuitions were formed in a different technological and informational context. If you have a positive case for why passive surveillance of everyone is harmless (or, indeed, beneficial) to society (as a whole, not only those who engage in it) then please make it. Assuming it must be harmless or good begs the question.