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After all that's been happening, your first thought is still how to protect the cops from looking bad on camera?

Then we'll just get to a point where the situation with the camera recording is actually worse than what we have now, because the cops we'll get only recording that benefits the cops, and none of the recording that doesn't.

It seems the government can "swing the pendulum" as much as it wants against the People, but it seems nobody wants to swing the pendulum against the government too much. God forbid the People get "too much power".

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I don't follow how you interpreted what I said as wanting to "protect the cops from looking bad on camera".

I am a paramedic. I take care of people in very compromising positions (most people don't worry about getting dressed if they're having a heart attack at 2am). I worry that _their_ privacy needs to be protected.

This also isn't simply about 'modesty'. There are many ways medical information could be used against someone (denied a job, denied housing, denied various forms of insurance, etc...). There are many reasons personal medical information needs to be protected.

And how is medical information any different from financial information? Financial information can be used to do exactly everything you said about leaked medical records, yet no one worries if their bank/identity has been compromised.

Because people dont ascribe the same level of importance to that.

It may seem trivial, but most people would be less shy about most of their transactions going out in the world than naked pictures of them in compromising situations.

I guaranty you would feel differently if you had AIDS and didn't know it.

I don't follow...

If I didn't know it, why would I care?

If I did know it, then I would care a great deal, as HIV is still very much a stigmatized infection.

Considering that would still be medical data, and my original point is to shield someone's medical data (in that specific case, privacy to not have your nudes on the internet), I dont think I would, sounds like something I would be super private about!

Up until recently your insurance could change over night based on medical status and when the insurance company finds out. Financial information is completely different. Also medical information is protected under a specially designed law. It's not just private information, it's your medical condition.

He is talking about the privacy of the patients, not of the cops.

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