• nxfsi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The average lemming:

      • concerned about online privacy
      • strongly against digital surveillance
      • rides exclusively public transit where there is surveillance everywhere
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        1 year ago

        There is surveillance everywhere outside, even having your own car doesn’t protect you from having your privacy encroached. That’s why I never go outside.

      • unceme@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        There’s cameras everywhere watching the road too if you really care that much and you better believe your car model and license plate is a much more reliable form of identifying information than a blurry face on a bus security camera.

      • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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        There are fundamental differences between physical and digital surveillance, namely when you are in a public space there is no expectation of privacy because there are other people there looking at you. When there are other people there that can actually see you, a camera also watching doesn’t make much of a difference.

        • notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          it does

          people usually doesn’t remember you unless you do some weird shit but once recorded, it will stay for the rest of eternity

          • unceme@lemmy.one
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            If you’re talking about standard security cameras usually the footage will get completely overwritten after afeew days unless there was an incident to prompt review of the footage-- and even then it usually gets deleted at some point. Its not like with social media data gathering where they’re collecting all that information in order to build a personal profile of everyone-- security cameras just exist to review incidents that happen in the public realm and there’s no real incentive for a public transit agency to track every single person that appears on their cameras.