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0 pointsvidarh10y ago0 comments

He isn't putting his camera up there 24/7, that's how it is conceptually different.

Even up in the Eiffel Tower there are times of day where you can get moments "to yourself" out of the view of tourist cameras, and on the ground around it you can be pretty much alone at times - even the hordes of tourists do not manage to reduce the level of relative privacy as much as the CCTV.

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golergka10y ago· 2 in thread

> there are times of day where you can get moments "to yourself" out of the view of tourist cameras

Yes, but I think it's strange to consider that as a necessary requirement. First of all, can you even formulate this requirement precisely? Because "in any public space, there should be up to 10 seconds a day where a person would find himself not observed by anybody" sounds a little bit ridiculous.

nitrogen10y ago

I think you have it backward. The original claim is that there was never privacy in public. The next comment refuted that claim by giving counterexamples.

Can you demonstrate that a lack of privacy is a requirement?

golergka10y ago

> The original claim is that there was never privacy in public.

No, that's not the claim. The claim is that there was never a guarantee or right of privacy in public.

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