Recording the actions of our public servants is almost a civic duty, in my opinion. What do they have to hide?
I would say that the information our own eyes capture is our own inherent right and any camera that we are holding right now is an extension of that memory that we record in our brain, consider it an “external memory device”.
While wiretaqpping laws should prevent unauthorized, autonomous cameras and microphones planted on another person’s or organization’s property without their consent. They should not prevent a person from using an “external memory device” that works in the within arms reach of the user’s own eyes. We have the right to our own “memories” be they in the form of brain patterns recordd by our brains or the electronic information in a memory card from a camera we are holding. On someons’e private property they can refuse us entry if we have such a device, but on public land there should be restriction on this whatsoever because public land is owned by the state and the state has no right to restrict your memory, internal brain patterns or external memory device.
I couldn’t agree more. What part of “Public Servant” do they not understand?
I think the age of citizen journalist is upon us ... Video is the new media and the tape will always tell the tale, unless it’s photo shopped.
Heck even our lame stream media could have found the tapes of the flotilla raid, if they had wanted to tell the truth.
I agree mostly with the author, the camera can be as powerful as the gun, just like the pen before it.
What are you looking for? LOL /s
That's because they can't control the press if the press is all of us!