[dagmx]

No, not privacy for the poor, but from the poor. You'd still have rich travellers visiting poor countries and taking photos of the locals like they're some roadside attraction.

Rich people and people in power have been able to invade our privacy whenever they wanted.

Making everyone capable of having digital cameras has enabled so much. With regards to cops, it's let the general public document and share examples of police brutality, in ways that would never have been possible before.

I think it's clear from your comment where your political biases lie and what your ethnicity bias likely is. You may subsequently argue that it's irrelevant, but you're also not walking in our shoes as minorities. Cameras have been a huge boon to being able to share our plight.

Emmett Till was a profound moment in Black history because his image could be shared in person with others. Similarly George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery etc were defining because the cameras were there...