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Re:Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in No... by guelo on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:13PM (#12087343)
The millions being spent on police cameras only serve as a gift to Tazer and the other paramilitary industrial complex companies. True reform will only come from the continued release of uncensored citizen video. The right to record must be protected at all cost.
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Re:Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in No... by jMyles on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:33PM (#12087509)
> The right to record

It's hard to contort the First Amendment in such a way not to protect this.

I agree that this is one of the core rights of information age society.

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Re:Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in No... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:51PM (#12087653)
Wait, wait. So it's a right to record, but if I go out and start recording stuff I get called out as privacy violator? So which way is it?

(I'm pro-recording here btw.)

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Re:Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in No... by jMyles on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:08PM (#12087824)
The former, and strictly so. This version of "privacy" can't survive in a free society I don't think.
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Re:Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public in No... by hx87 on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:06PM (#12088323)
That's why I think the European concept of "right to be forgotten" is deeply flawed. I understand that they're trying to protect people from being negatively judged using outdated information, but the problem lies in the judgement, not the information. A better alternative would be "right to be not given a damn about".
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