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Where Britain goes, the US is close behind. The BBC reports there are 2.5 million spy cameras in the UK with millions more on the way. They are as common as convenience stores in the US, too. Even more common. Every convenience store has them – banks – parking lots – intersections. Who can stop this sneaking Big Brotherism? There’s only one hope.
Trial lawyers. Yes, those folks you Republicans and conservatives love to hate. If you think you can get rid of them through the favored government branch of conservatives – the legislative branch – talk to shop owners and their customers in Ybor City – a fashionable suburb of Tampa, Florida. How about the branch favored by liberals – the courts? No chance. Look at the complaints lodged in judicial bodies by folks caught on red light cameras. It’s only the trial lawyers and massive lawsuits that can save us. The case will be set out like this. You own a parking lot with a spy camera – you get video of someone being carjacked – you have to say you had the camera for security purposes. After all, you can’t admit the camera’s there to watch attractive women. You also have to admit you had no procedure in place to stop a crime once it began. Negligence. You failed to train your employees in what to do if they saw a crime occur on the monitor? Negligence. You failed to have employees watching the monitor to observe any crime taking place? Negligence.
Have a few juries return multi-million dollar verdicts in such cases and the spy camera will go the way of the lawn dart.
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