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What are My Rights Against Video Surveillance?
Violated Privacy asks: "A video bugging device was recently discovered in the bathroom of the house I share with three others. After sharing this find with one of the housemates, I am sure whose camera it is. Needless to say, we're both rather upset over the matter. What are our legal rights in this matter? It's not the government doing it, but another private citizen with whom we willingly (until now...) share a house. Are there special considerations? (Yes, I should ask a lawyer. I plan on doing that tomorrow when I get a chance. The problem is, most lawyers aren't exactly experts in this area.) Has anyone on Slashdot done research into this field of privacy law?"
What's the address of the website you're on?
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
Jesus loves you, I think you suck
This is completely legal. There's no use going to the police; people do this all the time. You should probably just put it behind you.
Oh, and could I have my video camera back? Thanks.
While reading this I anticipated the second sentence to read:
And even if a lawyer isn't an expert, s/he is probably more than capable of spewing off some legal BS and charging you $200/hr anyway.
Besides, anyone with any savvy knows that if you put lemon juice on your face, video cameras can't record you.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Pawn it...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
If the video stream goes to a computer, come up with a picture, which digitized would contain a JPEG virus and attack GDI+ interface of their Windoze machine.
... I am thinking of setting up a webcam of my roommates and was seeking the legal opinion of non-lawyers.
You Roomate Action
M M Physical violence, combined with targetted property destruction (erase HD, etc.)
F F Same as above
F M Police, court system - get him tagged as a sex offender for life
M F Sorry, you are S.O.L. Can't beat her up, legal system won't help. Just try to get the tapes/data erased and kick her out. Of course, if she's kinky enough, maybe there should be a change in strategy.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Hang a photo of the goatse guy in front of the camera...
Better yet...
break the camera into bits.
Take a shit
drop bit sof camera on top of the shit.
don't flush.
Ask him to remove his device from the bathroom.
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
If he doesn't know that you know you could always give him a special show. May I suggest pointing it at images of a certain man of the goats we've all come to know and fear? Or perhaps his girlfriend in her tub?
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
Is there any question to which "You should use Linux!" is not the answer? ("What should I do about the hidden camera in my bathroom?" "Linux!")
Anyway, unless the roommate has a really old computer, he'd be better off using a Gentoo LiveCD with its Pentium optimization. That should save at least four or five milliseconds.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Here's my suggestion:
0) Replace the camea clock with a regular one
1) Prit out the famous hello.jpg
2) Point the camera at the picture.
3) There is no profit, just fun.
Bonus points if you install surveillance on the dude between 0) and 2) and send him a printout of his face in the "bueeee" mode.
Dear Slashdot, I am currently in county lockup for running over a homeless man in downtown Chicago. He was lying on a wireless access point that I wanted to warchalk. I'm using my one phone call to post an AudioBlog entry that will be crossposted to Slashdot, so I ask you, the Slashdot reader: How should I plead in my arraignment tomorrow?
>...The perv in that case got off...
;)
I'm sure he/she did.
Piss on their toothbrush in front of the camera.
Kick her ass. Equal rights, and all that.
What if there is a camera watching the first camera, or better yet, a circle of cameras all watching each other ?
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
The you could watch the submitter shower in bullet-time obviously!
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Fuck Beta
~John Lenno