• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

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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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        1 year ago

        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.