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How the commentary was supposed to support your point was unclear. No such demarcation exists because people want some amount of privacy in public space? No such demarcation exists because a self righteous random person asserted privacy is a myth and anyone who disagreed with him lied to themselves at least?

I know people who value privacy because they grew up in small towns. Traffic cameras are used for surveillance also. And another reason people don't like them is a record of pairing them with abnormally short yellow lights.



> And another reason people don't like them is a record of pairing them with abnormally short yellow lights.

This. I heard an anecdote, which I can't prove but I'm sure has happened dozens of times in various places, about a guy who got a red-light ticket and suspected the yellow light was too short. He went back to that intersection and filmed the yellow lights, proving that they were shorter than the mandated-by-law 3 seconds. (I think state law, I imagine different states and countries might have different minima). He took that recording to court and got not only his ticket thrown out, but (according to the version I heard) all red-light tickets produced at that particular intersection.


The National Motorists Association blog used to write about that all the time.

(They still might, but their RSS feed has died, so I no longer see their posts.)


> How the commentary was supposed to support your point was unclear.

Jane Jacobs is not at an extreme position on the scale of how much importance people assign to privacy.




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