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Growth of cameras in public places: Does this make us safer or is it an invasion of privacy?

Growth of cameras in public places: Does this make us safer or is it an invasion of privacy?. New service in Google’s map feature that allows you too see homes, stores, hospitals, warehouses, people and anything else that is along most streets of major cities.

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Growth of cameras in public places: Does this make us safer or is it an invasion of privacy?

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  1. Growth of cameras in public places: Does this make us safer or is it an invasion of privacy? • New service in Google’s map feature that allows you too seehomes, stores, hospitals, warehouses, people and anything else that is along most streets of major cities. • Vehicles with cameras mounted all around drive through the streets of the city and photograph everything. • This tool can be helpful but also very controversial.

  2. Why is this new tool bad? • Invasion of privacy • Pictures of people urinating, picking their nose, people coming out of adult bookstores, police officers attending to a fatality. • Detailed photos of homes and children outside of them or people doing things outside of their homes that they don’t want photographed.

  3. Is this really a big deal? • A woman in Cali. Search her home and found a photo of her cat in the window of her house. • Legally anything thing that is visible to a person is allowed to be photographed. • A lawyer of a digital rights group said “I think that this product illustrates a tension between our First Amendment right to document public spaces around us, and the privacy interests people have as they go about their day”.

  4. Google isn’t the only one using cameras. • Red light cameras: a computer takes a photo of your license plate and generates a ticket. • Some of these cameras are even able to identify the driver. • Cameras are making money as opposed to reducing accidents. AAA rep. Lon Anderson says “They are making a heck of a lot of money, and they are picking the motorists' pockets on the pretense of safety”.

  5. Red light cameras have an upside as well. • In San Francisco the use of red light cameras seems to be very effective. In 2006 the amount of accidents decreased by nearly half since 1998 before the use of the cameras. • The cost for these cameras can be around $300,000 per intersection, however the M.T.A. director believes that “it seems like money well spent” and more cameras would be beneficial.

  6. Chicago is working with IBM to install cameras along busy streets. • Other large cities such as St. Louis are doing this as well. • Live video catches people walking down the streets. • These cameras have assisted in many drug arrests and also reduced traffic violations.

  7. Is this an invasion of privacy or an effective tool? • Since these tools are legal is it still an invasion of privacy? • Is it that big of a deal if your cat can be seen through your window on the internet? • Should cities be allowed to make arrests and issue tickets through the help of these machines?

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