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shadeson
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They used to have surveillance vans to check if you were watching TV without a licence...
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chris stiles
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Originally posted by shadeson:
They used to have surveillance vans to check if you were watching TV without a licence...

They really didn't - or at least, they didn't operate in the way people expected.
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Originally posted by Byron:
Enoch, there being zero expectation of privacy in public, on what grounds are surveillance cameras immoral?

I think the initial principle you mention is largely orthogonal to the issue being discussed, which is the hoovering up and cross referencing of everything you do in public (which often undermines the principle of expectation of privacy in private anyway).
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