Surveillance Camera Video Finding Its Way To YouTube
from the you-have-no-privacy-anywhere dept
While governments like to talk about how security and surveillance camera footage is in safe hands with the government, it probably won't surprise many of you to find out that's simply not the case at all. Officials in New Jersey are apparently increasingly annoyed to find highway surveillance video of highway accidents consistently finding its way to YouTube. They're trying to crack down on the practice, but that seems unlikely to be particularly effective. This seems like a good time to second the call for some recognition of "Harper's Law": "The security and privacy risks increase proportionally to the square of the number of users of the data." Remember that the next time the government wants to set up some large database and insists your data will be kept private. Update: And now, New Jersey is suing YouTube over the videos. Nice work there. The state is unable to keep the videos private -- and rather than punish themselves, they sue YouTube.
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The only thing we can do is limit the damage by NOT bowing to the governments desire to create an all inclusive database that will have everything from your name, address and bloodtype to your favorite color and political views.
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Secrets
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another saying..
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self development
two is a secret to which they have vowed
1 is a silence that cant be broken
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Great...
The state is unable to keep the videos private -- and rather than punish themselves, they sue YouTube.
Let me guess they are suing for some form of infringement right?
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Sunshine laws, there is a reason they are called
You cannot hid you activity under a rock for long.
If it is the government, then it is you.
You cannot sue the government because 'it' says that you would be suing yourself. This also means that the government cannot sue the people because that is the people simply suing itself.
Government cannot keep secret just because it might embarass someone.
Sunshine laws.
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aren't government created videos public domain?
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Re: aren't government created videos public domain
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not suprised
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Best of Mall Cop videos?
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Best of Mall Cop videos?
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public + public + public + public = state secret?
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Copyright Law - Government works
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Business Alarms
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