Comment Re:Surveillance of public areas OK (Score 1) 189
Even worse, because the assaults, murders and rapes don't happen all to often in front of those cameras (and when the people know about the cameras, they will move to other locations), a justification for continued use and the associated costs will be demanded.
So they will simply broaden their mission and include petty things, but will hype them. Thus every small thing is bloated to an act of public danger.
Yet since the criminals have moved on to different locations, it will simply be a misleading TPM report intended to give the people the illusion of security they so badly need.
We all knew it would come so far, but we did nothing because we let ourselves get blackmailed.
And don't think for a minute a private organization would be any better. Just check the recent report on the MoA where simply looking the wrong way got you into a lot of problems.