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The first step would be not to set up a surveillance system.

> You can't build enforcement infrastructure around something that isn't yet illegal!

Yes. Yet merely making something illegal must not be an excuse to set up something that is sooo easy to breach.

In other words, stealing being illegal does not make it a good idea to recklessly leave stacked banknotes unattended on my lawn.

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Yeah? Laws are how we encode society’s preference that we not do something.

Laws encode the preferences of a subset of society.

Some laws don't reflect what broader society thinks at all.

Having laws is generally a good thing when they are enforced. A law that is not enforced, selectively enforced or not enforceable is actually worse than no law since it gives power and agency to the enforcer without providing much to the people.

Edit: this being said, the New Hampshire laws above seem to be mandating that the data is deleted. Not that it is not accessed. It seems like pretty good start.

But there also could be a law stating "do not set up mass surveillance camera network in public areas".

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