Friday, January 13, 2006

Two More Thoughts on Privacy

Privacy Group complains of London TV Plan

Residents of a section in London may get access to closed-circuit surveillance cameras via their TV.

Eleven cameras in the community of Shoreditch in east London monitor the area for safety, and a plan intended to improve the quality of life will allow everyone access to the footage (on their home televisions).

This does not seem so bad to me since they are putting these TV cameras in public places. If you are dumb enough to commit a crime or do something that requires privacy in public, then you shouldn't be doing it in the first place and you deserve to get caught. (And Samuel Alito doesn't care, since this is outside the US)

Added 1/17 - I did not realize the cameras were not fixed and the watchers were using these cameras for their own voyeuristic pursuits. Showing once again, that the system is only as good as those that run it.

Safeguarding the Privacy of Canadians

Who really cares about the Canadians? We should just annex them and be done with them altogether!!

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