Comment on Do your neighbour's security cameras make you uncomfortable? Here's what you can do

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t hate all public cameras, I live in an area with lots of them, and most are fine enough.

  This one in particular irks me because it doesn’t serve a purpose beyond voyeurism. It doesn’t cover the any of the persons property, or any entranceways to their property. Its only for monitoring people in the street. It might be technically a public places, and technically legal for anyone to record, but I really don’t think that makes it a good idea for everyone to just record everything.

  I have seen kids running around naked in their front yard just down the road from this camera, so that also raises questions.

  I’d prefer if surveillance of public places was left to law enforcement, at least there is a theoretically some form of oversight.

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  • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh you mean privately owned cctv that faces public place. Yeah, I agree it is questionable since public spaces are the jurisdiction of law enforcement. But I can also see it as someone with a hobby of hoarding data, archivists, and the other extreme being as you said, voyeur. But there is no way of knowing hence I also understand your irks towards it.

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