Few technologies make people as uneasy as surveillance cameras installed by governments and private companies, which come increasingly close to capturing everything that goes on in public. Even though like Neil M. Richards said its “something that abuses our civil liberties and would be something like having police officers with perfect memory on every street corner”. But the analysis can’t be as simple as “surveillance bad, privacy good”; and at least in some situations, camera systems can promote both security and liberty.
I wish everyone would think this through more carefully. No police state can prevent every last attack its just not possible. But it can ruin a society while no one but the cameras are watching. And just with the Boston Marathon Bombing Attack, in my opinion it would have taken more to find out who were the ones that placed the bomb. Boston is one of the less wired cities when it comes to cameras surveillance, but still authorities relied a lot from footage from Lord & Taylor department store near the scene. Just not this week at my job somebody tried to steal something from use, but we caught it in camera and were able to get the person that was doing it. The other way I see it is that even though just like Richards say “cameras are expensive. They are costly to install and maintain, and in a time of limited budgets, they could be mistaken for an adequate substitute for human police officers on the street.” This can also bring out jobs for unemployed people. And don't agree that it will be a substitute for human police, it would just be something that helps the law to solve crimes.
We live in an age where where Internet usage and data content is available for anyone to see via our IP addresses coming from our computers, our personal information on social media sites are all out there for anyone to see. The point I'm trying to make is that there are FAR more privacy concerns in the 21st century information age than a few extra cameras on the street and we are already on private video all the time without our knowledge as we saw in Boston.
Am not saying that is justifiable to violate certain of our civil liberties. All am trying to say is that when it comes to national security, where we are able to find criminals or detect threats that can eventually bring harm to the people in a more faster way. And as long as they are not in my house,if so yes them that would be violating my privacy.
