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mingus88today at 10:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Counterpoint: everyone needs to own their own video streams

I hate it, but you are being recorded everywhere you go. Your plates and your face get scanned every single day, all day long. This is normalized. Privacy is dead.

You will never get access to any of that data when you need it. It is not there to help you. You need to keep your own evidence of the world around you; you never know when you will need it.


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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 11:13 AM

I just assume that I’m on video, at any given time.

Not condoning it; just accepting reality.

> It is not there to help you

It’s like those “This call may be monitored for 'quality' purposes.” service calls.

You can bet, that if the recording helps the company, they’ll have it, but if it helps you, well, they didn’t record that call.

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assimpleaspossitoday at 12:57 PM

What happens to everyone when the plates and faces are recorded or scanned? Who is looking at those every day?

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