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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are fundamental differences between physical and digital surveillance, namely when you are in a public space there is no expectation of privacy because there are other people there looking at you. When there are other people there that can actually see you, a camera also watching doesn't make much of a difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it does

people usually doesn't remember you unless you do some weird shit but once recorded, it will stay for the rest of eternity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you're talking about standard security cameras usually the footage will get completely overwritten after afeew days unless there was an incident to prompt review of the footage-- and even then it usually gets deleted at some point. Its not like with social media data gathering where they're collecting all that information in order to build a personal profile of everyone-- security cameras just exist to review incidents that happen in the public realm and there's no real incentive for a public transit agency to track every single person that appears on their cameras.