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El Guiri | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 Maybe the people I came across in the jungles of Indonesia who told me they didn’t want their photos taken because it steals their soul had a point!
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Derek Ross | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fair point.
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mleku | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 a good society would deem it to be a crime to capture images without explicit permission, not just "you are on camera" signs

it would not be a crime in such a society to burn out the CCD sensors of every single camera that is sited in a public place

i think it's pretty hard for them to stop anyone from doing this either, just building the green light laser and infrared aiming system that makes it easy and fast
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Marakesh 𓅦 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How can you say it would not be a crime to burn out the CCD sensors of these cameras? They define what is a crime; you would be destroying "public property". Or do you just mean that it wouldn't be immoral?