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| from here and here (image source) |
If it weren't for the normalization of surveillance we wouldn't get amazingly disturbing images like this one.
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| from here and here (image source) |
If it weren't for the normalization of surveillance we wouldn't get amazingly disturbing images like this one.
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| from here and here |
The privacy issues with Teslas are beyond what I would have expected. Intimate moments captured by your car and shared around the Tesla offices like a joke? Or that simply walking past one in a parking lot can get you captured on camera and uploaded and examined by data labelers? Yikes.
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| from here and here (image source) |
Sometimes surveillance cameras are installed in such a way as to blend seamlessly into the background. Other times you get nightmare fuel.
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| found on Izismile |
I think I'll hold it. I'd rather not piss away my last shred of privacy, thank you very much.
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| from here and here |
Candid Camera and all the hidden camera shoes that came after it were always a little creepy when you think about them secretly recording people without their prior consent. That's pretty much the same thing that the new surveillance comedy show from Amazon will be as well, except this time the cameras will be everywhere, and it will give people yet another reason to participate in a surveillance state that feeds data directly to police without permission.
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| found on Funny Junk |
Privacy is, unfortunately, something that can be pretty easily violated simply by disregarding social norms. In this case, however, there are all kinds of possible solutions (a taller fence, a paintball, a high powered laser pointer, a well aimed/focused solar cooker, etc.)
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| found on Acid Cow |
I have a soft spot for pranks, and I would very much like to try this one some day (if I ever travel again)
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| from here and here |
Apparently Jeff Bezos makes the rules now, and he's decided to imbue his own employees with the powers normally held only by judges who grant search warrants. Something about private sector judges seems deeply unsettling.
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It's bad enough knowing you're being watched. I think we can all do without the anthropomorphized machine judgements.
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I think we know how that goes. It's surveillance cameras all the way down.
| from here |
Surveillance cameras are usually not hidden. Any thief worth their salt should be able to spot them and realize that they'd be captured on film (and later in person by police) if they tried steal from a business equipped with such cameras. Stealing from a business that MAKES them takes a special kind of stupid.
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I guess surveillance isn't magic after all. Those cameras are valuable, of course someone is going to think to steal them.
| found on Izismile |
On the plus side, at least you get a warning and can look around for the camera and obscure it's view before you go. It would be worse if you didn't know about it.
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| from here |
It would be more accurate to call the surveillance cameras, but I think society has less tolerance for the concept of surveillance, even though it's going on all around us. Calling them security cameras seems like it's part of our surveillance denialism.
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| found on Imgur |
Maybe if banks had budgets the size of the Mars Program they could afford better cameras.
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The idea behind it is probably to warn people about YOUR cameras, but the thing is, even if you don't have a camera, no matter where you take it it's probably telling the truth.
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| found on Dump A Day |
I have a feeling surveillance cameras can be enchanted, so you better make sure they're uploading a live feed into the cloud
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| from here and here |
Just another reason "security camera" is a bad name for them. They're surveillance cameras. They don't make your stuff more secure (even without the vulnerabilities), they just help see who the perpetrators are.
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| found on eBaum's World |
There isn't really any such thing as a security camera. Camera's don't make things more secure, they don't prevent unwanted outcomes, they simply help in catching people after the fact. The best they can hope to do as far as prevention is to serve as a deterrent, but for that to work they have to be plainly visible, not hidden in a mural. People are less likely to be deterred by a turtle looking at them than they are by an obvious camera looking at them.