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Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Post by 6d6b73 »

lucb1e wrote: post #72
6d6b73 wrote: post #50

Honestly, why do we expect privacy on a public road? I could install small camera on my house, direct it at the road, and start recording. Run it through some image recognition, and share it online. Am I violating your privacy?

Maybe, but it's illegal for sure. The filming is, unless you have a good reason like "cars are being set on fire nearby, I'm watching my own"; and by facial recognition all the more if you have no damn good reason. Maybe laws are different wherever you live but you didn't mention a jurisdiction.

How about simple prevention? I want to see who drives around in case someone steals something from my house?

Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Post by 6d6b73 »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #53
6d6b73 wrote: post #50

Honestly, why do we expect privacy on a public road? I could install small camera on my house, direct it at the road, and start recording. Run it through some image recognition, and share it online. Am I violating your privacy?

We've established this time and time again, it's the scale and comprehensiveness of the coverage and the power/authority of the entity collecting the data that matters.

But if enough people did this, someone could aggregate the data and get this same effect.

Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Post by lucb1e »

6d6b73 wrote: post #81
lucb1e wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, but it's illegal for sure. The filming is, unless you have a good reason like "cars are being set on fire nearby, I'm watching my own"; and by facial recognition all the more if you have no damn good reason. Maybe laws are different wherever you live but you didn't mention a jurisdiction.

How about simple prevention? I want to see who drives around in case someone steals something from my house?

Still not allowed, not in the Netherlands at least.

Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Post by amyjess »

lucb1e wrote: post #83
6d6b73 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about simple prevention? I want to see who drives around in case someone steals something from my house?

Still not allowed, not in the Netherlands at least.

Well, it's a good thing this article is about the US, where the right to film in public is 100% legal under all circumstances.

The US is not Europe.

Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city

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Post by lucb1e »

amyjess wrote: post #84
lucb1e wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still not allowed, not in the Netherlands at least.

Well, it's a good thing this article is about the US, where the right to film in public is 100% legal under all circumstances. The US is not Europe.

I was responding to someone who said whether "we" can expect privacy on a public road. I felt included in "we" being hacker news. Could also be "we the US" vs the rest of the world but that's not how I like to think of it generally...
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