subject: There Are Cameras Everywhere [print this page] There Are Cameras Everywhere There Are Cameras Everywhere
Got the feeling that you're being watched? Well, smile, because you are. Government agencies, corporations, the police, retail conglomerates, even mom and pop shops, are putting cameras everywhere. It may sound paranoid but it's true. If you don't believe me, just Google the hundreds of articles out there already written about it (if you believe the internet that is). Sometimes around town you will see signs letting you know they are watching you. Most of the time no one bothers to tell you. Are there cameras even in restrooms now? Your guess is as good as mine.
Personally, I don't care. After all, I'm just one ugly mug amongst millions of others. They can track me down anyway if they want, and, usually, I don't do anything illegal (that's a joke- I never do anything illegal!). So to me it's just so much more cyber noise in this already frenetic digitized world we've created. How can one complain about his or her privacy being violated when everybody's privacy is?
And actually, when one ponders it even further, you come to realize that being filmed or photographed is outdated and old hat anyway. Video evidence in this day of special effects is by no means iron clad or convincing. From one perspective, this is not a planet populated by six billion souls but rather by six billion shadows. These days evidence and wrongdoing are once again becoming blurrier. Technology is catching up though, and perhaps the day is coming when it will seem like just plain common sense to have a chip inserted into your baby's arm at birth. I doubt that it's not already happening.
My computer video camera is about the size of a stick of gum. Two toothpicks would just barely fit into the lens housing. Cameras can be and are everywhere, hidden and in the open. It doesn't cost hardly a penny to record days of movement. They're here to stay.
