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A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the who's-gonna-monitor-the-monitors-of-the-monitors. dept.

mattnyc99 writes "As the Senate begins debate today on wider new surveillance legislation, Instapundit blogger and University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds has an interesting op-ed as part of Popular Mechanics' cover story on the looming power of spy cameras in America. He cites numerous court cases to argue that our privacy concerns may be backwards, and that there should be a new law for citizen rights — that if Big Brother can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. From the accompanying podcast: 'Realistically I don't think we're going to get much in the way of limits on government and business surveillance. So I think we should be focusing more on making it safe, on making it a double-edged sword.'"

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  1. Don't worry by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure our brave Democrats will hold hearings on it just as soon as they cave to the President's latest totalitarian demands once again.

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    1. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      "You yanks need more unions and more socialism and a lot less tanks and uppity pigs waving tasers around."

      And you need to go fuck yourself.

  2. noooo by dotpavan · · Score: 5, Funny

    that would kill the "in Soviet Russia.." meme

    1. Re:noooo by JavaBrain · · Score: 3, Funny

      Something like?

      In Soviet Russia, government spying on you spying on government spying on you spying on government... ...on YOU!

  3. Re:Spy Yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd rather not post a webcam of me masturbating all over the internet. OR HEAVEN FORBID, PROGRAMMING.

  4. Re:Employee supervision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would really have liked the showercam for my 8th grade French teacher, Miss Galando.

  5. Re:Ewww.... by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 2, Funny

    I cannot be the only one that REALLY does not want to see Cheney's "intimate moments"..... Especially not when he shoots his friends by mistake.

    (Why is there no -1 Horrific Mental Image mod available?)
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  6. Re:I agree by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is never illegal to make a video or other recording of a clothed on-duty government employee. So anyone can make a recording of the on-duty government employee who's changing the launch codes for the nukes? Or the state-paid lawer who's talking with a client? Or the government doctor who is reviewing someone's medical records?

    [Emphasis mine]

    This should result in some interesting new security policies. Government employees will now be required to strip before doing anything that requires secrecy.

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  7. Re:Sorry... by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have it on good authority that they saved his head for a comeback in the year 3000.

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