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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:10 am
If you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about? Since I've graduated from highschool, all of my jobs - DNDs(in a few countries), RCMP, MoE(in a few countries again), NGOs have required intensive background checks, including fingerprinting, interviews and polygraphs. I don't feel that I've lost any privacy. If anything having all of this done, has opened opportunities for me that I otherwise wouldn't have had.
As for security cameras, people will feel more secure in areas covered by cameras, grafitti/vandalism should decrease, so I see it as a win win situation. In the end it would change people's behaviour, and in the long term the need for them might actually disappear