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> As in I'm obviously expecting to be seen by the people in my immediate vicinity but not by people who aren't nearby.

If you're in a forest, maybe that's reasonable. But it would really be interesting to see some statistics about how many security cameras the average person is recorded on in a day, with the images broadcasted to servers around the world. I'd wager a guess that in modern cosmopolitan cities, it's probably upwards of 100 cameras a day. Meanwhile we're completely unaware of this fact and get upset when a stranger points a smartphone at us.




The important difference though is that most security camera's aren't publicly posting the footage. I'd expect most people to be upset if a shop started live streaming everyone that went by the street.


That would just be a webcam, and there are tons of them out there that don't (to my knowledge) get any blowback.

Example I saw in person a couple years ago (Estes Park, CO): https://originaltaffyshop.com/taffy-cam.php

They had a sign out front saying something like "tell your mom to visit this website so you can wave to her". Nobody seemed to mind. Maybe the difference here is that it is clearly marked?




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