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An anonymous reader writes "HP has received a patent on technology that would allow anyone who didn't want their picture taken to remotely instruct cameras to blur their face. While this is being promoted as a privacy measure, does anyone else see the serious rights issues here? What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people? If this tech can be used to blur faces, it can be quite easily adapted to turn cameras off altogether, with deeply troubling implications. And even without these 'what if' scenarios, isn't there an expectation that, if you're in a public area, you're fair game for being photographed?"
I'd rather have a bunch of cops beating up innocents a year than thousands of crimes more because of fewer cops who are afraid to do what it takes to protect my (and the rest of the public).
Why worry about cops first and not the (always) bad guys?
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"/known a few cops //never been given a terribly hard time"
Let me guess, you're white and clean cut.
Law enforcement is increasingly anti-freedom. To protect and serve is one thing, a noble persuit to aide a community. To blindly enforce the law, as if the law was written by the god who designed the physics of the universe is another. I see less and less of the protect and serve, while enforcing laws designed to protect the corporations methods of profit continue to climb.
You don't hate freedom do you ?
Holding the camera in such a way as to look up/down a womans dress/skirt is another thing altogether.