• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      When I was a young adult we started getting concerned about the number of cameras popping up everywhere. Then some news story ran that said an average person is filmed around 20 times throughout the course of their day. We all found that to be horrifying. Now that number is probably several thousand times per day, and people do not fucking care. It doesn’t make sense to me. I care, but I’m made to feel like a weirdo if I ever say that.

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        5 months ago

        CCTV cameras have somewhat of a different connotation though. They are in a public space, no one’s pointing a camera into your front room, they are looking at streets and roads.

        I used to actually watch CCTV as a job (stupidly boring) trust me no one looks at that footage. They just have an algorithm that pulls up anything it deems relevant, and possibly AI now, then a human looks at that relevant 30 seconds of footage or whatever. Unless the monitoring systems flag something up, there is virtually zero chance anyone is going to have a look at it.

        In theory I could have used the cameras to watch a single person but in practice there are monitoring logs someone would have noticed what I was doing and called me out on it. Besides we were all far too busy watching the crows staring into the camera lens.