<story><title>San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance</title><url>https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/03/san-diego-has-been-turned-into-massive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark212</author><text>This blog post is highly misleading and inaccurate. Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it.&lt;p&gt;The SD Reader isn’t a very trustworthy source. Here’s the U-T’s extensive piece on the topic:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-conversation&amp;#x2F;sd-san-diego-street-light-sensors-camera-for-law-enforcement-use-20190319-htmlstory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-conversatio...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>I frankly do not care how limited access is, or if parts of the hardware are disabled.  I do not trust governments to act transparently.&lt;p&gt;There are a few telling things in the article you link to that make it clear that the government values expediency over protecting citizens&amp;#x27; rights.&lt;p&gt;The first notable one is the process: a police officer has to submit a request to view video records... but to whom?  It looks like just to their superiors?  If they &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; cared about protecting people&amp;#x27;s rights, the request should have to be made to a court, in the same way a warrant needs to be requested.&lt;p&gt;The city points out that the audio recorders aren&amp;#x27;t active because they don&amp;#x27;t have a use case for the audio.  They claim that they would engage the public before activating them, but... is that really true?  And regardless, I would not want that activated, ever.  Any use case audio recordings of public spaces could possibly have... I do not want that.  Having the hardware there and ready is just too tantalizing to public officials.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking about moving to SD at some point, but this kind of thing really gives me pause.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance</title><url>https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/03/san-diego-has-been-turned-into-massive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark212</author><text>This blog post is highly misleading and inaccurate. Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it.&lt;p&gt;The SD Reader isn’t a very trustworthy source. Here’s the U-T’s extensive piece on the topic:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-conversation&amp;#x2F;sd-san-diego-street-light-sensors-camera-for-law-enforcement-use-20190319-htmlstory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sandiegouniontribune.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-conversatio...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>&amp;gt; strict protocols&lt;p&gt;Much like discussions about corporate policies, I find it helps to ask what happens when the handbook &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; followed...&lt;p&gt;How many years in prison does someone get for unauthorized access or (if an authorized user) abusing their access for improper use?</text></comment>