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Big Brother Strikes Back

Many people feared digital technologies, especially the omnipresence of video cameras.  Remembering the Cliff Notes of 1984, they screamed, "Big Brother is watching!"  Yet videos actually worked to the benefit of the citizenry.  Most of us have nothing to fear from surveillance.  Your life isn't interesting.  Government agents are not watching you masturbate in the bathroom.  Nobody cares.  Occasionally, though, videos can offer you freedom.  There are now hundreds of cases of document police misconduct, and dozens of cases where videos provided an alibi to a criminal defendant.  Remember the Duke Lacrosse case?  One of the defendants was saved by an ATM video that established that he could not have been present when the (non) rape occurred...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).