[jjav]

> Ubiquitous surveillance will end most crime

It doesn't even do that, is the worst part. So the trade is to give up all privacy, but low-level crime continues unchanged.

Anyone who has tried to get the police interested in a theft where you have clear HD video of the action and a clear view of their faces and/or license plate, has lived this experience.

[eth0up]

Yeah, and notice all the critical surveillance footage that happens to conveniently disappear? I could start a list, but anyone who knows it won't need one.

[antonvs]

Even the Secret Service - once considered a fairly reputable organization - deleted text messages related to the Jan 6 insurrection, after they had received a preservation request.

And the video gap for the Epstein suicide is just too ridiculous.

Someone should start an investigation into why records gaps so often occur right around the time they're most needed. Maybe it's aliens.

[eth0up]

I was beginning to fear none concurred. We've named a pittance of the many examples. We are even seeing it with the Tyler Robinson (C Kirk) case, where the rooftop footage is null and the responding officer lost his body-cam footage, because the battery failed in the first 20 minutes. This shit goes on and on. And it is not only with cameras; even the Pulse Nightclub, where broadcastify went down during the most critical part of the event, and no public records were retained. The London bombing of 2007, on and on.

I know it seems unfair to boast an abundance and give only a few examples, but it seems nearly everyone has their own unique memory of a significant example and I gave up cataloging things long ago.

We seem to have enough integrity issues to warrant a little extra caution in our panoptiprudence.