[h2odragon]

Laws banning cameras will of course only cover some cameras and then you get all sorts of Orwellian visions.

See David Brin's "Earth" for some earlier thinking about the impact of public surveillance society.

I think the genie is out of the bottle, and far better that everyone who cares to can record what they see. Only the true gems of hilarious stupidity will make it to life changing levels of fame, and perhaps those featured in such clips can learn by and maybe profit from the experience.

the everyday stupid things we all do have already lost embarrassment value by virtue of being so widely published. Who cares if you catch someone picking their nose in an over the shoulder video now? You can take you shaky phone video of a carjacking to the police, but they may not even want to keep a copy: its unlikely to be of actual use to them.