"You have no expectation of privacy in public, citizen."

"Officer, do you have any expectation of privacy in public?"

"That's different."

Incredibly sometimes things are different because of different circumstances and the laws we've all taken part in constructing (when we bother to organize and vote of course).

You're an unregulated, unsupervised, and frankly unknown factor with no real accountability through any realistic chain of command to the results of the democratic process. However far from your imagined ideal, cops are.

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maxerickson an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There's some public interest in noting and publishing observations of police (they appeared to be working while they were being paid, for instance).

The same is at least less true for private citizens that are not being accused of a crime.

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shimman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why are you assuming that the rest of us are fine with mass surveillance and authoritarianism? Are you a rationalist?

	▲	EA-3167 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not assuming that, and if you read up a bit you'd see my views clearly spelled out. Please engage with the topic and not who you imagine I must be for not providing you with enough of an echo of your own views.