Microsoft used amature camera employee to capture the "real microsoft" for it's blogging customers. I wonder what Microsoft employees really felt about having a camera "let loose" in their work environment.
Camera's are becoming such an obtrusive invasion of privacy that there is talk of writing new laws along with companies banning cell phones into certain areas to remove the chance that a camera may be used through the phone.
Although Micorsoft wanted to be authenic about communicating with customers, I feel that taking a camera into the workplace is stretching too far what could have been done through a traditional blog.
Camera's are becoming a major intrusive instrument in society that it is getting to a point in which no one can relax. Besides the obvious places, such as ATMs, Elevators, Traffic Lights, ect. Camera's are being found in the following places as well taking pictures of people without their consent:
- Hidden camera's in their own home
- Residents at the gated community pool
- On school grounds by another parent
- On the sidewalk going to a meeting
- At the cash register
- The list continues . . . . .
Technology is increasing while presonal rights lag behind in obscurity. So then, where are societies limits?
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What you write is so relavent..I know somebody who works for a company that does defense for the US Gov and they are not allowed to have a camera phone, and if they do they can't take it into the workplace. The problem is...these days, its tough to get a good phone without a camera! You view a lot of the negative personal space issues about cameras however camera phones and things of such nature are great for capturing things on the whim like if you see something outrageous or need to take a pic of someobody's license plate in a hit and run. Just like my post on whether blogs are beneficial or detrimental to large companies...are cameras and camera phones good for society in the ways mentioned above or crossing socially acceptable barriers?
I agree with you. Cameras has invaded our lives. Indeed cameras are helpful to enable us to help people understand what we want to transmit. However, as you pointed out, we cannot feel relax, or painful when we are surrounded by cameras in dayly life. We need to consider how co-exist with them.
Masa
I disagree with your comment Fuzzykids when you state that we should have to learn to coexist with camera's regardless if our experience is painful and we cannot relax.
Way back when our constitution was written - technology was not what it is today. The infridgement of having a peaceful private life is being taken from us through this form of survellence. Secretly placing cameras in a person's home or other such techniques used to spy on others is an infringement of their personal rights. Actually this is far, far worse than that . . . . it is domestic violence even if it is not recognized by the laws. Stricter laws need to be put into place making this aggressive, deviant behavior a crime with steep consequenses to follow.
Twenty years ago a man could beat his wife and he wouldn't go to jail if she didn't press charges. Today this same man goes to jail regardless of his victim's cooperation to press charges due to the better understood domestic relationship which inhibits the victim's natural ability to defend themselves. Placing cameras in the home to monitor a spouse and other members of one's household is a form of prisoner monitoring and should be recognized as a form of battery. Just because something exists doesn't mean that we should accept it and learn to co-exist with it. We humans, posessing a higher level of thinking through our frontal lobes should have the aptitude to remove an offensive object from our environment.
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