Sometimes I feel like dancing. OK, yeah, and sometimes I feel like like picking my nose for them...making faces, whatever. I'm old, what are they gonna do about it?
If it's low enough to me I use it as a mirror to pick my nose. Otherwise I stare intently at them while digging my underpants out of my rear end then smile knowingly, wink, and walk away.
I think they are great when we want to catch criminals. When a crime is committed everyone says "Where is the security cameras"? Does no one have video footage of the crime being committed? So yes it's useful for catching bad people. I get it. I still think it is sad that good folks are not allowed any privacy anymore.
@mick But public security cameras aren't located where anyone ever had privacy--indeed, this is integral to the definition of public and private space. I certainly value my privacy, but I never imagined myself to have privacy in Times Square or the chips aisle at 7-11, and the presence or absence of cameras doesn't change that. As for places like restrooms, changing rooms and such, cameras there are very illegal, as rock legend Chuck Berry found out very much the hard way.
@mick Oh yeah, I agree with you there. And the extra security can have drawbacks under certain conditions. Some people certainly do seem to get a bit obsessive about it, though that also applies to nearly anything.
I have 24 cameras in my building at work. They've proven to be very useful in identifying and apprehending criminals, as well as verifying that our cleaning contractor was not performing the duties that they were billing us for.
the neighbors across the street installed some. presumably even they have no idea why because they're pointed in some obscure locations (or they're fake..)
Citzenfour
Every-time I see them I wonder what people in china think about us... as I assume every one of them has a giant back door known only to china.
I feel like grinning at it evilly and leaving the building.
Sometimes I feel like dancing.
OK, yeah, and sometimes I feel like like picking my nose for them...making faces, whatever. I'm old, what are they
gonna do about it?
If it's low enough to me I use it as a mirror to pick my nose. Otherwise I stare intently at them while digging my underpants out of my rear end then smile knowingly, wink, and walk away.
I wave at them
Like Sam Fisher.
I think they are great when we want to catch criminals. When a crime is committed everyone says "Where is the security cameras"? Does no one have video footage of the crime being committed? So yes it's useful for catching bad people. I get it. I still think it is sad that good folks are not allowed any privacy anymore.
@mick But public security cameras aren't located where anyone ever had privacy--indeed, this is integral to the definition of public and private space. I certainly value my privacy, but I never imagined myself to have privacy in Times Square or the chips aisle at 7-11, and the presence or absence of cameras doesn't change that. As for places like restrooms, changing rooms and such, cameras there are very illegal, as rock legend Chuck Berry found out very much the hard way.
@Starblind Ok,ok, you are right, but I still think people are too damn nosy!
@mick Oh yeah, I agree with you there. And the extra security can have drawbacks under certain conditions. Some people certainly do seem to get a bit obsessive about it, though that also applies to nearly anything.
I have 24 cameras in my building at work. They've proven to be very useful in identifying and apprehending criminals, as well as verifying that our cleaning contractor was not performing the duties that they were billing us for.
@VeeDubTDI - My son caught the cleaning crew at his bar stealing money.
I wink at them.
the neighbors across the street installed some. presumably even they have no idea why because they're pointed in some obscure locations (or they're fake..)