Slashdot | Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal

[Eugene Leitl]

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.

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a>
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