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Comment by 6d6b73 | Hacker News Reader

Honestly, why do we expect privacy on a public road?

I could install small camera on my house, direct it at the road, and start recording. Run it through some image recognition, and share it online. Am I violating your privacy?

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We've established this time and time again, it's the scale and comprehensiveness of the coverage and the power/authority of the entity collecting the data that matters.

Given that this is a city, it seems like this fight will come up a million times across the country. Is there some more federal legislation that should be pushed to block this type of practice?

Something akin to the consumer privacy act, but instead the citizen privacy act?

lol, who do you think is going to fund this?

But if enough people did this, someone could aggregate the data and get this same effect.

I tend to agree. I think the problem with this system isn't the privacy aspect, but rather the waste of tax money.

Well, unlike the police in your scenario, you don't have the legal power to affect one's rights for one. And the 'sharing online' part could be considered some sort of legal infraction on privacy

Maybe, but it's illegal for sure. The filming is, unless you have a good reason like "cars are being set on fire nearby, I'm watching my own"; and by facial recognition all the more if you have no damn good reason.

Maybe laws are different wherever you live but you didn't mention a jurisdiction.

How about simple prevention? I want to see who drives around in case someone steals something from my house?

Still not allowed, not in the Netherlands at least.

Well, it's a good thing this article is about the US, where the right to film in public is 100% legal under all circumstances.

The US is not Europe.

I was responding to someone who said whether "we" can expect privacy on a public road. I felt included in "we" being hacker news. Could also be "we the US" vs the rest of the world but that's not how I like to think of it generally...

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