Nobody will be able to afford them because of the cost of living, rent, low wages, no hope of buying their own home, but, yeah this is an important priority!
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People drastically under-estimate how often they are observed by camera already.
If you're in public in a place with 50 people within 100m of you, you are very likely already under the gaze of more than one camera. If you are in a place open to the public, you are likely already under the case of more than one camera. If you are on a main road, you are likely being watched. I'm even starting to see cameras watching cycle paths.
We aren't at USA/England/China levels of surveillance, yet - but it's pretty ubiquitous. About the only place that's free for your privacy now is your home, maybe your friends'/family homes and places where nobody else is around. Want privacy? Head out of town. Don't take your phone.
So there’s a difference between the security cameras around, which we have little agency over and despite our lack of trust, do have a rationale to exist, and someone privately filming a person against their will, without the agency to object or move. While people are entitled to film others and there’s definitely context, if someone were to ask for the filming to stop, you would expect a decent person to comply.
Add to that, the lack of agency that a hidden camera gives. There’s the real issue; being unaware of being filmed by a possible pervert and not having the ability to request it stop or move away. If it’s a phone or GoPro and I can see it, I can ask politely or choose to move. Agency.
I don’t think people underestimate at all how much they’re being filmed. I’m aware, I don’t like it and there’s nothing I can do about it. I think that’s somewhat different to a glasshole filming people for their own entertainment or whatever to be honest.
I agree with the Senators opposing this. I think these should be banned, with non recording pairs that identify objects made available to the visually impaired.
leave society if you want privacy, but good luck
I was thinking it would be better if they had a big 1990's camcorder style red light on them when recording but this'll do I guess
Gopro's are still obvious enough
The Facebook ones do have a light, but there are guides online to show you how to cut the cable to disable it.
should be hardwired, if the cable is cut the camera doesn't work
As long as you have physical access you can't stop a determined person disabling a led.
what about monitoring voltage to the LED and if it drops then the camera stops?
Just add a normal diode with the same voltage drop. Smd diode can be sub mm scale.
Good move! And only allow ones that doesnt have function to record (e.g. to help the visually-challenged).
I guess this ship already sailed.
Genuinely there are cameras everywhere and majority of society doesn't typically seem to care any more. I see people walking into public bathrooms, phones out. And the odds are they are texting or whatever, but no one bats an eye even though there are cameras on the back and front of the thing.
Never saw that happen with an old camcorder.
I was chuckling, imagining a guy with a camcorder in a public toilet.