> Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.

Most women could have predicted that spycams in a park, run by a government in a country with known issues around women’s rights, would lead to issues.

Even governments with incredibly strict rules and indelible audit trails struggle with men in government using their access to data to stalk women. India is not a country known for these things.

This excuse has been also used in Swedden to forbid trail cameras in public areas unless the government emit a permit. People has been sued because a woman toke a dump in front of the camera. Is unclear to me if this was deliberated or not.

Is a "think on the children", but with women.

The fact is that people in public areas can and should expect to be filmed or appear in the background of a selfie. First because is legal, and second because is unavoidable.

Without the current "male panic", women shouldn't have a problem with appearing in the background of a low quality photo (that in most cases will show a blurred face). Men don't care about it either, and people don't wander around naked in forests typically.

Cameras can have benefits for women also. Will detect presence of wild animals in the area that could be dangerous to women; or criminal activity, like poachers, arsonists or violators. I assume that this is the real problem with the presence of cameras here. That poachers are being filmed

They aren't neither bad or good. Is just a tool. The huge majority of zoologists are normal responsible people that would delete any photo with sensitive personal information and never would filter it to internet.

The fix is to put banners on the area, but then the cameras will be stolen. Or we could also stop to study nature and let everything go to hell.

Fly tipping is a reason that some UK councils hide cameras in woodlands [0]. That's what we semi-confirmed (the council "declined to deny it" in a coded response) in this episode "It is not closed, it is not a circuit, and it is not even television!"

For US readers "fly tipping" is illegal dumping of household waste, not giving money to insects.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=26

Seems a lot of modern tech is (ab)used for the purpose of perving. I recently visited a gym which seemed very social media oriented (not dissimilar to most gyms tbh), but as days went by I gathered the impression something weird was going on. I ended up suspecting (but having absolutely no evidence) that the owner or staff was using the cameras to spy on members. Further oddities exist in the reviews for the place, which includes staff walking into the change rooms (of the opposite sex) with naked people there.

That's a really long/specific way of saying: wildlife cameras spying on Indian women is an instance of a more general problem.

I feel like plausible deniability (e.g. security/monitoring) is so easy that discovering and alleging wrong-doing would be met with little more than shrugging of shoulders.

another article with some other details https://www.enca.com/opinion/wildlife-monitoring-tech-used-h...

seems like they developed a set of principles a while back https://wildlabs.net/sites/default/files/principles_for_the_...

But my guess is without strict enforcement of the rules with consequences this will carry on.

they should put the women in charge of the cameras and wildlife monitoring

Unfortunately I think that access to all kind of IP cameras is too easy. Normal people mostly don't care to install, don't bother to deal with setting up the recording infrastructure. Creeps, psychos, delusional people go wild with them, including pointing camera at neighbour doors, windows, garages in residential areas. Yes, you can tell them to turn the camera away but they are delusional so discussion rarely makes sense. Some people draw this sick perverted satisfaction in recording their neighbour and sometimes only violence works as an argument.

Perhaps there's an inherent conflict between using the forest as a source of resources for the nearby village, and using it as a storage space for tigers.

I suppose that this is not the right thread to ask about what devices would you use outdoor, but I'll try anyway...

Requisites:

- battery operated

- IP protection

- fast shutter (example: moving objects)

- wifi?

- night mode not important (using it in optimal conditions)

Thanks

> they feel watched and inhibited by camera traps, so talk and sing much more quietly.

Why would you stop singing loudly because of cameras?

Even if their singing is bad, they're just inflicting it on someone who they don't like?