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not a lot of folks would want people videotaping everything they did at work and putting it on YouTube

It comes down to reasonable expectation of privacy. If anyone is doing work in a public place, it doesn't matter if they are police officers or trash collectors, they don't have any expectation of privacy.

The 1984 comparisons are bogus. 1984 was about total surveillance as one of many tools of a totalitarian regime. The cameras in 1984 weren't just out in public, they were in everyone's homes.

If you want to do anything privately, do it in a reasonably private place. Problem solved.




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