Surveillance Camera Privacy
Discussions focus on privacy concerns with pervasive cameras in public spaces, debates over surveillance versus existing security cameras, and fears of constant monitoring and loss of anonymity.
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How is the privacy on that? Have an aversion to being watched on camera, etc.
I'm not sure how you got the impression that the discussion was about cameras/drones on your property. The OP talked about "Cameras everywhere all the time. No more anonymity in public soon". It's clear that we're talking about other people's cameras in public spaces, not voyeurs trying to look in your bedroom.
sure, have you ever gone outside? thousands of cameras everywhere in any populated place, so why not?
You don't see the parallels to security cameras?
It's not paranoia if they install a camera in plain view that will record your image to a secret remote server.
Is there any service or something that offers such things? Cameras to them seem very intrusive
This lowers the barrier to take unwanted photos/videos significantly. Yes, surveillance cameras are everywhere but your everyday person does not have access to their feed (and the publicly accessible ones are not that common and usually very far away). This is different from possibly being recorded by anyone you pass by in high resolution, for their own personal use.Also, today when a person takes a photo of you it's usually very apparent, hence most people hesitate just pointing a
It is a surveillance device so you are right to be "overprotective". People who own and use devices with cameras pointed at them all day seem to not realize.
As long as people don't point their cameras at public spaces, i.e. the streets, I don't see a problem with this. I wouldn't personally trust a company to handle my video feed, but that's just me.
What's so innocent about people running surveillance cameras and recording every person walking by on the street?