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Re: Things you can't take pictures of in public


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:25:31 -0500

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:45:48 EST, Larry Seltzer said:

And legislation could control what could be done with public surveillance
cameras as well, such as prohibiting the sorts of police abuse suggested
here, and setting penalties for it.

So tell me Larry - which statutes, exactly, said it was legal and not abusive
when the FBI hassled Martin Luther King Jr, and tapped his phones, and all that
other stuff they did?

You see, Larry, neither a wiretap nor a camera has any moral sense of its own.
They can't tell if they're being used for illegal purposes.  And the problem is
that there has *never* been a government that was able to consistently resist
the temptation to abuse a technological device.

The only way to ensure that the camera up on the pole isn't abused is to not
put it on the pole in the first place.

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