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| Invasion of Privacy? |
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| I recently picked up one of those spiffy new combination digital still camera/camcorder units. What fun! You can record over a hundred high-resolution picture on a little stick half the size of a stick of chewing gum. And for only a fraction more in cost, record moving video and audio rivaling the quality of the big, $40,000+ broadcast cameras used just a few short years ago. |
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| My primary interest has been in nature photography although I’ve never been one to pass up an attractive form should it pass in front of the lens. But I was at the park a few weeks ago trying out my new gadget. One of those compressed images from one end of the park to the other squashed together into a two-dimensional image like those ‘S’ curves you see in car advertisements. A moderately attractive young lady passed in front of my camera and asked; “Are you videotaping people?” Hard not to since people are everywhere. “Kind of a violation of privacy isn’t it?” she snipped. |
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| I was a bit shocked and a little disappointed. I’ve had people smile, wave, pull faces, or just act goofy, but seldom has anyone ever taken offense. You would of thought I was some kind of sick-o or something. I remember hearing stories about those so-called “sick perverts” hiding out in outhouses and the like. |
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