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If you're walking around in public, the government has the right to follow you around. In fact, everyone has the right to follow you around. Having cameras and

• damarquis 13y ago
  Of course anyone can follow you in public, the alternative would be impossible to enforce. The problem is that the cost of getting that data could be made unacceptably low. For example, I think most people would object having their government uploaded their coordinates to a public website. The interesting question is what is the right tradeoff between transparency and cost.
• talmand 13y ago
  I believe there is a limit to this. You can't continuously follow someone around making notes on everything they do because at some point you're likely to trigger some type of local harassment or stalking laws. Of which there is a legal recourse to handle this. What this describes goes beyond that because there's apparently no legal recourse to deal with it. Well, I suppose that may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.