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Privacy comes from private. What you do in your function as a public servant is not private.

DanBC on May 19, 2012 [–]

Civilians may be uncomfortable with police officers recording everything all the time.

See, for example, discussion about CCTV in England. There are many valid concerns about the amount of stuff that's recorded.

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