It's only a matter of time before we all simply need to accept the fact that every move we make will be captured on a surveillance or web camera of some sort. Privacy advocates are up in their bunched panty filled arms over this but the technology marches on. On a few recent visits to Target I found myself strategically positioned on a bench at the front of the store waiting for a friend who was shopping. I invented a game to pass the time. I call it Who's Watching Me Now. It's simple. Without moving around I count how many ceiling mounted cameras I can see. Average count..... 53. You can't itch your nose in Target without it being captured on video.

I almost missed this report from Virginia where a government study found that intersections with traffic cameras have an overall increase in injury accidents. Wow! Counterintuitive to be sure.

This will probably be the case until a new normal is established where all intersections are assumed to have cameras and therefore drivers will not attempt to alter their behavior at locations they know to have cameras. (i.e. speed through or to an intersection to avoid yellow/red lights and the accompanying photo/ticket dance)

Perhaps we should just relax and drive slower while we worry about the (perfectly legal) photographs of unsuspecting people captured in Amazon's A9 Yellow Page photos. Privacy advocates are back up in those arms about pictures of people entering sensitive locations like abortion clinics.

In America there is no assumption of privacy when in public. These technologies are simply becoming wide spread and at a scale where they are visible to larger and larger audiences. Face it you're being watched. At least by a camera and a computer. Whether a human or many humans actually see those images is something else.

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[Peter M.]

A lot of those domes are just fake ones, with no cameras inside.