Good. It helps solve crimes, and can even resolve general anti-social behaviour.
I'd rather have the cameras than have family members die to drugged up drivers, or robbers get away with their crimes.
I'd rather have the cameras than have family members die to drugged up drivers, or robbers get away with their crimes.
There's been a lot of stalking enabled by Flock cameras.
If people want to surveil the inside of their own homes and businesses that's fine. I think some public areas should be surveilled and others private, with indicators, so if people want to be watched for their own safety when they go outside they can, but if they want to avoid tracking they can go through unmonitored areas. Those will fix your latter and former concern respectively. More centralized surveillance won't help much more but certainly lead to harm (as Flock has, already, by mistakenly accusing people with similar faces for crimes across the country, and letting corrupt cops stalk their spouses).
And who desides what that is? Because right now, in the US, Trump and ICE appear to have strong opinions on that.