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Does the spread of body cameras signal a rapid erosion of privacy?

Posted on September 25, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Lucy Schouten reports:

Technology has made wearing a camera nearly as easy as putting on a pair of shoes, but the constant surveillance made infamous by George Orwell’s “1984” raises its own set of questions.

Body cameras offer an impression of safety in what can otherwise feel like an insecure world. One man from Florida said he started wearing a GoPro camera on his belt to get evidence his wife was abusing him, WSTP News reports. Michael Novak said he hopes video can help him in a custody battle, since courts generally believe women – and not men – are the victims of domestic violence.

Read more on CS Monitor.

h/t, FourthAmendment.com

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