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[ NNSquad ] more on police video cams and records requests
A point that really needs to be emphasized here is that much of the video captured by these systems is *inside* private homes, where police enter in the most devastating of circumstances -- adults and children sick, injured and bloody, vomiting, naked -- and worse. These may be completely innocent parties, because police can enter homes in a wide range of circumstances including perceived emergencies triggered by 911 calls (real or fake) or other events. If you've ever known a cop or EMS tech well, their stories are horrors. It doesn't take much imagination at all to see how such vids of innocent persons in their homes could be exploited by the police as unlimited duration investigatory tools -- or nightmarishly exploited by unscrupulous members of the public for the purposes of financial gain both direct or via extortion, or just to destroy lives for the "fun" of it. If police body cams are to be practical in the long term, we have to solve these dilemmas, and fast. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad