From: <ama2022@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:30:42 -0500

Re: video cameras

Why are these scenarios any more likely to happen with or without
cameras?  If everything you do is watched AND available to
everyone, that is one thing.  But the fact that some private
individuals/corporations employ cameras and linking that to
suddenly EVERYONE will know where everyone is, is an entirely
different scenario.

> I dunno - say I run a private elementary school, and I want to
> make
> sure that the parents of my students are all of the right moral
> fibre.
> Or I am on a co-op board and I want to get my pesky neighbor
> thrown out
> of the building.  Or I want to humiliate and embarrass my ex
> significant other - perhaps by revealing something which could
> cost
> them their job or career.   Are these cases really that hard to
> imagine?

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