Cameras on Lightposts: We've Become Too Lax About Big Brother Watching

As a child of the 60's and a very liberal tree hugging hippie chick, I find cameras very distasteful and an invasion of my privacy. There's many opinions on this issue and some people actually like and favor the use of these cameras. People site safety issues as the main reason for acceptance.

A closer look at what's going on in most cities might change a few minds. For example, most cities outsource the installation and running of the camera programs. If you get a ticket in St. Louis you'll be sent a notice from an office in Texas. With photo evidence of said offenses, almost no one can beat these tickets. The problem with this is that the whole thing requires you to believe that everyone in this business is honest and never photo shops any of these photos.

If you've ever played with any photo shop program on your computer, you know just how easy it would be to turn a green light into a red light on any photo. These companies make their money and fully exist because their pictures bring in revenue in tickets. Yet we're to blindly believe they'd never do anything dishonest and these companies making all this money are more honest than we.

Another issue that comes up with cameras is basic privacy. Are we really supposed to believe that companies are only doing what they are supposed to do? Is it not realistic to think they zoom in on people to gather mass information? Companies pay big money to just gather information and yet we're to believe that companies with cameras and the ability to gain free information, just aren't.

I remember the days when people protested over issues that involved our basic rights and privacy. I miss those days. Now it seems most people are all too eager to give up any right for the sake of safety from the bogeyman.
Perhaps we need to question who we're really all not safe with and look all around at the cameras in every store, on ever light post, and many street corners.