December 06, 2005
Somebody's watchin' you!
from - Buck
Ours is a camera-obsessed society.
I have made peace with the fact that no matter where I am or what I am doing there is a better than average chance a camera is pointed at me.
Eyewitness News did talk with Bibb County District Attorney, Howard Simms. He says cameras in public school bathrooms are legal because schools have more leeway on privacy issues
Have more leeway on privacy issues than who or what? Can Wal-Mart not have cameras in the restrooms in order to help prevent vandalism? Why not? God knows they have cameras everywhere else in the building.
If the guy I am renting from wants to have hidden cameras in my apartment to help prevent vandalism can he? Why not? After all, it is really his apartment. I am only renting it.
Are cameras to be limited to only government institutions? Why?
As I have already said, I have made peace with this. I do not like it but I have no real choice but to tolerate it. Privacy and the right to privacy is an illusion.
We all might as well get used to it.
Posted by Buck at December 6, 2005 09:25 AM
I had my first experience with cameras when driving in Germany, where I got a couple of tickets a few months apart, when the speed limit on the highway I was on dropped from infinity to 87mph. Same spot both times.
I'm ambivalent about the use of cameras in public places for law enforcement in general. Privacy is important to me, and I just don't like the idea of being on camera wherever I go. There are a few questions I think about when I'm bothered by cameras: First, would it bother me if someone were behind the camera at the time it was taking pictures or filming? (Some people are against unmanned traffic cameras but not against cops with cameras; I don't see much difference, but partly because they're pretty few and far between right now.) Second, does it bother me to have my activity recorded for later viewing? (The answer there depends on the situation.) Third, how much detail is captured? (I'm okay with traffic cameras, usually, but if they could tell what I'd had for breakfast in the morning from what I'd spilled on my shirt, then I'd have more of a problem with them, as being overly intrusive.)
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Posted by RSA on December 7, 2005 06:35 PM Link to comment |
Well, a camera in the shithouse would have me answering yes to your first two questions. I guess detail would not be that big of a deal there.
Let's put it this way. There is a lot more going on in my bathroom than there is in my bedroom!
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Posted by Buck on December 8, 2005 04:25 PM Link to comment |
