NAZI'S R creaming their pants !!! papers please! papers !!!
from the surveillance-society dept
We
all know that law enforcement has been regularly expanding its ability
to spy on people at every turn, especially with surveillance cameras
installed all over the place. But it still seems a bit shocking to find
out that many municipalities are
installing systems on public buses that record both audio and video
of everyone on the bus -- including in San Francisco. That doesn't
just seem like overkill, it raises significant legal questions.
California -- for better or for worse (and I'd argue, for worse) is a
two party consent state when it comes to recording, meaning everyone has
to know they're being recorded. So it seems like recording without
getting consent should be seen as an illegal, warrantless form of
wiretapping. Even more troubling: the reason San Francisco is doing
this upgrade? The Department of Homeland Security paid them to do it.
It gave them a grant covering
the entire cost. Is Homeland
Security really worried about drunks getting into a brawl on the bus?
Or do they see this as an opportunity to do significantly more involved
surveillance? The whole program seems pretty troubling, and yet more and
more places are adding the devices, with little to no public
recognition.
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