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Yes, absolutely. All these other potential invasions of privacy.

But I'd like to think the items on your list become more visible - and easier to combat - if recordings are time-limited. Can activists conceivably use FOIA requests to identify ALL dataflows out of surveillance systems in use in public commons ?



Maybe dataflows out, but I've never heard of a private company (receiving them to provide a service to a government) being part of a FOIA?

Maybe that's just in my jurisdiction.




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