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Submitted by sparkelz on December 4, 2005
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Smile: You're on Not So Candid Camera
It has been estimated that a person is filmed an average of 73 times per day as they walk through the streets of major New York cities (Marks, par.16). Video cameras are everywhere in our world today, in banks, stores, offices, Apartment buildings, on street corners and in countless other places. Each day we are being watched as we perform our daily duties and continue on with our lives, does this invade on our expected right to privacy? I believe that the answer is no, Surveillance cameras are essential to providing us a safe environment to work and live in. However to protect our personal privacy we need to have restrictions as to who is able to tape us and what is done with these tapes. In past years legislation has done a good job of protecting citizen's rights to privacy by regulating wiretaps and audio surveillance, it is now time that they create and enforce regulations regarding video surveillance in order to provide a balance between personal privacy and community safety.
Our constitution only protects our personal privacy when a "reasonable expectation to privacy" exists. We only truly have a right to privacy when we are in our own home because when we leave our home the reasonable expectation of privacy disappears (Black, par.4). When we are in a public place we do not posses the right to expect that what we do or say will remain private and the use of video cameras ensures this. For many years the government has protected our privacy by restricting the use of audio recording and wiretaps, but has done very little to protect it from the abuse of video surveillance. There are no standards that govern where cameras can be used, who gets to watch the tapes, and what happens to the tapes after they are viewed (Goodheart, par.6). Privacy advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that it is time for the government to step in and pass legislation to protect the privacy of Americans...
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