Comment Re:what will it take for general acceptance (Score 1) 921
You should have been getting ready for that for a while before this if being recorded in a bar was a potential issue for you. We've had more than enough video recording technology (both on the part of the business owners and your fellow patrons) to have made that level of "post privacy future" you are so terrified of a reality for decades now. There has NEVER been a right to privacy from other private citizens while making use of a public place like a restaurant or bar. Any privacy you do or don't enjoy (with the specific exception of places like bathrooms) is entirely at the discretion of the business owner. You've always had the right not to be recorded in such situations as no one is forcing you to go to those businesses in the first place.
Personally, instead of getting hysterical about individual people getting a slightly easier way to record each other in public places. I'd rather spend my pro-privacy energy focusing on things that make a little more sense such as ending the right of government and large corporations to aggregate the video feed of large numbers of cameras into "big data" that they can use to track an individual person's movements over time in ever greater detail without needing an individual warrant (issued by a normal, non-secret, court) for every person they want to track this way and only being able to begin recording AFTER that warrant is earned with a clear legal requirement to destroy such recording a short time after the issue date of the warrant unless they actually file charges against the person being investigated.
