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Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by taeric on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:09PM (#15518791)
And it is not like an officer is enforcing ordinances at all hours. Nor do we expect them to be. Outreach is a thing. An officer goes in to give a fun speech to a school. Suddenly, kids in the class are being broadcast.

I get it. Most of us are programmers, so we think we can setup a pretty solid set of rules for when something applies. Maybe some of us can. And when that perfect ruleset is found, it will be awesome. However, it is a lot more fluid and discretion is not necessarily a bad thing.

Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by cracell on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:17PM (#15519165)
ACLU has written and refined very good rules for proper bodycam use that protects both citizen and police officer privacy.

It's not that black and white but it's not that complex of an issue either.

Act - https://www.aclu.org/other/model-act-regulating-use-wearable..., White Paper - https://www.aclu.org/other/police-body-mounted-cameras-right...

Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by Brybry on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:48PM (#15522461)
Psst. Kids in class are broadcast all the time on the news. Sometimes they're even identified by name, school, and municipality in recognition for some achievement.

Honestly, privacy is nearly dead anyway. I'm not happy about it but there are databases with enough information on us to steal anyone's identity. With that level of information already existing... it seems kind of silly that what we're most worried about with police cameras basically comes down to embarrassment.

It's also weird how hacker news has forgotten that Google Street View has tons of pictures of naked people with automatically blurred faces. Same for Google Maps/Earth.

Re:A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations by taeric on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:23PM (#15522600)
Certain kids are. Typically from affluent areas. Distressed schools typically have kids that need extra privacy considerations. They also need more police outreach.

As another poster said, this is solvable. Just will require more than a few rules.