I know someone that works for a State transportation agency in the Northeast. During COVID they allowed employees to work from home. This person has a particularly nasty boss, I know the boss and this is a nasty character. The boss prompted the Inspector General to investigate the person working from home. At this time the women working from home was on paternity leave and was called in for an interrogation WHILE on maternity leave. Long story short, the interrogation didn’t go well, imagine that.
Sometime later the husband of the women working at home is in the front yard and notices a camera on the telephone pole in front of their house. They have two small children and their first fear was that this might be some pervert, so they call the County Sheriff (rural area). Sheriff says: “That is not us, but I have seen this before, it’s your employer.”
The legality of this has never really been challenged in term of civil rights. There is also the consideration of whether the telephone pole is in the “public right-of-way” (adjacent to the road) or is the pole on private property where the utilities have easement to enter onto the property to maintain the pole.
Anyway, people should know this is being normalized.
If that happened to me, I’d find a buddy with a scope’d .22 who likes target practice. And most everyone here owns such, so finding the “perp” would be just about impossible...
You think a telephone pole camera is bad? I have seen things you would never believe.
I will guarantee, because you are here, and agent of the powers that be who lives within a mile of you, has listened inside your home to what you assumed were private conversations.
Check my tag.
.22 takes care of that camera.