Source:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-12-13T231656Z_01_N13491988_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-RIGHTS-CAMERAS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Security cameras raise rights worry in NY: report

Reuters
Thursday, December 14, 2006

The security cameras are watching, a New York rights group warned on
Wednesday.

Security cameras have increased fivefold in parts of New York City and
have become so pervasive that they threaten the rights of privacy,
speech and association, the New York Civil Liberties Union, or NYCLU,
said in a report.

Moreover, there was no evidence the cameras deterred crime, the group
said.

In 2005 there were 4,176 cameras in three districts of southern
Manhattan, up from 769 cameras in a 1998 survey, the report said.

"Unregulated video surveillance technology has already led to abuses in
New York City, including the police department's creation of visual
dossiers on people engaged in lawful street demonstrations and the
voyeuristic videotaping of individuals' private and intimate conduct,"
the group said.

Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A 1998 study conducted by the NYCLU found 2,397 video surveillance
cameras visible from street level in Manhattan. The report said that
same number of cameras can be now found in the neighborhoods of
Greenwich Village and Soho alone.

Ion't see that it's private and intimate conduct if your on a public
street!

Well, I guess we shouldn't put camera's while Duncan Donut's employee's
are Pissing in the coffee we are ordering either. That's a violation of
thier constitutional right to piss in the coffee pot so ppl will get
sick or die!

No!!!!! Can't have that now can we!

Sick o's