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by shmel 268 days ago
Do you also support a blanket ban of CCTV in public spaces? I am pretty sure that the bank had a camera in the ATM recording a public pavement 24/7 and nobody bats an eye.
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> Do you also support a blanket ban of CCTV in public spaces?

I'm not sure I support anything. I'm just pointing out that there is a path available if you don't just assume that you should be allowed to take video.

But it wouldn't bother me at all to have, say, a rule that you couldn't have a surveillance camera covering any space you didn't own, and furthermore that if you had a camera covering a space that you did own that was open to the public, and recordings would be deleted after say 24 hours unless there was special justification to keep a specific one.

Many people are actually quite uncomfortable with the prevalence of video surveillance, in fact.

However, there are significant differences: 1. The camera is in a fixed position, 2. The footage is not typically shared let alone published online.