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Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

submitted 2 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This gets us to the central problem of today’s surveillance state. No one running the cameras wants to be observed. One reason that city officials object to releasing Flock data, for example, must that they themselves are among the recorded. The cameras are on them too; they too can be tracked. Everything means everything for these everywhere cameras.

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[-] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It's a sign of rot in our culture. People feel entitled to know everything about others around them. It's the same mindset whether it's trawling through security camera footage or stalking someone on social media or irl. Technology has accelerated the trend and reinvented voyeurism as a mainstream hobby

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