Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

[Declan McCullagh]

Keep in mind that the Mass. decision that started this thread
only dealt with *surreptitious* recording. Mann's "shooting back"
is still allowed even in Mass. as long as it's obvious what you're
doing.

-Declan


On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:20:56PM +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Greg Newby wrote:
> 
> > This is a good opportunity to urge cp's who haven't yet, to read David
> > Brin's "Transparent Society."  It's pie in the sky, but essentially
> > advocates having cameras everywhere, so that anyone anywhere can tap
> > into a video feed.
> 
> Brin's scenario is symmetric. This is not what we're getting. What we're
> getting (surprise, surprise) is that recording of the public is allright
> but not recording *by* the public. Mann's "shooting back" is rapidly
> getting outlawed.
> 
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