The First Amendment protects the right to record in public spaces, meaning individuals can capture video of others in public areas without obtaining permission, as public spaces inherently lack privacy and therefore cannot be invaded; however, the proliferation of public surveillance creates a paradox where the infrastructure meant to protect citizens becomes a threat to the very freedoms it claims to safeguard, raising important questions about the trade-off between safety and personal privacy in modern society.
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“I didn’t give you my permission”Added:
Who are you and what are you doing?
Taking video.
Why? Just tape What the wrong with you, bro? Don't try and touch me like that.
>> [ __ ] move. [ __ ] back up. The [ __ ] wrong with you? Don't try and grab my [ __ ] [ __ ] you.
You're a [ __ ] ignorant mother Touch him again, I will [ __ ] drop you.
[ __ ] fool.
You're an idiot. You're an idiot. What are you doing that for? What do you got a mask on? Because I have American rights. Thank you. Stupid or what? Are you stupid? No. Why, idiot? Get his license plate. We're going to call the cops right now.
Do you guys have a bike? Yeah, let's get his license plate.
And that's why we do this. We exercise our rights cuz of idiots like you.
You're filming the first amendment or something?
What's your URL?
What is your URL?
Do you have a a website?
What do you call it?
First amendment uh First amendment.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can I see your license plate?
Can I see your license? What the [ __ ] Can I see your identification?
Registration right now. Can I see your ID? This is a traffic stop.
You're not a cop. How are you asking for somebody's ID, you idiot? Is that what you used to do back in like the '60s?
Just like you have your rights. No, I want to know what you're operating under. You aren't operating under first amendment.
>> Oh, that's our own private. That's also my name. First amendment. Wow, a bunch of wackers. Wackers? Yep.
Why is it Why Why are you being judgy?
You're filming social. Why are you filming me and all this? Do you want Hold on. Do you want the real answer to that or are you I want the real answer. All right. So, we are doing public photography through the exercising of my first amendment rights and your first amendment rights and reminding people that if you want and demand privacy when you're out in public, you have to create it yourself.
And part of this process is educating people about how many times we are filmed every time we leave the house over 100 times a day without your knowledge or consent. So, that's all we do. It's educational. Why Why don't you guys have your glasses off and your mask down?
>> So, you just missed half of what I talked to you about. If you want and demand privacy in public, you have to create it yourself. So, today I'm demanding my privacy in public, so I have to create that privacy myself. So, for privacy for short. So, why are you invading someone else's privacy because you want your privacy?
>> So, to invade something, you have to have privacy in the first place. You don't have that in public.
So, I can't invade something that you don't have. Wackers.
What does wackers mean?
What's that?
You think you're a picture or what?
I don't need your permission, ma'am.
We're in public.
You taking a picture?
Just capturing some footage of the drive-thru today.
Have a nice day.
What's up?
He just wants to stare.
Social baiting. What you guys doing?
Your master what? Your master what?
What's up?
No No film, just recording.
I can't hear you, man. There's a lot of Just recording everyone that comes through the Starbucks drive-thru today.
Because what?
Just out here exercising my first amendment right to record in public.
Yeah, just this.
I'm getting you on there. You're being posted.
Are you videoing?
I can't hear you. What happened?
Videoing? Yeah, we're taking video.
Why won't you guys tell us why you're recording? What happened? Why won't you tell us why what you're recording? You didn't ask. I did. Out there, that guy won't say anything. Just out here exercising my first amendment right to record in public.
Well, he probably doesn't want to yell it, but we're just exercising our freedoms in a free country. We disseminate how the public reacts to people exercising their rights in a free country. Yeah, so I just like are you protesting something?
>> Just exactly what I told you. There's no hidden agenda. Gotcha. All right. You have a good day.
Why are you recording?
Why are you recording? I'm not. I'm playing a game on my phone. Uh-huh.
Why are you recording me? Why are you Why are you in the drive-thru?
Getting coffee. All right.
Hey, what are you guys videoing for?
What's that? What are you guys videoing for? I'm not going to yell it.
I'm not going to yell. If you want to come right here, I can tell you. I just I don't Huh?
I can't go on private property.
Do what?
You can hear me? Like this? Oh, okay.
Uh we are doing a peaceful I just don't want to yell and I got traffic behind me half the time, so We're doing a peaceful exercise of first amendment rights, exercising free speech and expression and press in in public.
So, that we can disseminate how our fellow people react or respond to the exercising of freedoms in a free country.
It really must be nice to be a middle-aged white A what?
A middle-aged white man? Is that what she said?
Must be really nice. I'm so sorry. It must be nice to be so privileged to walk around insulting people for no reason.
Okay.
Nice privileged life. Have a nice one.
Yeah, honk.
Honk at her. She won't move.
Must be nice to be a middle-aged white man.
Middle-aged white man. I'm proud to be a middle-aged white man.
Better than being a dumbass.
A No one is like YOUR MOM LIKE MOVE.
MOVE.
There you go. Good job. I love you. I'm not going to cause anyone to hit kids.
>> Hey, I love you. I know. Bro, did you see that?
I know.
I know. I I actually After you went in, I actually went out I Yeah. You have a good day.
Then you go to jail. Then you'll go to jail.
That'd be a good example for your kid.
Yeah. You think I'm going to educate people?
Bye.
Bye.
All right, bro. Good night. Get over there for that. All right. I like that.
I like that. I respect that, bro. All right.
You mean it, though, cuz I'm a Raiders fan, too.
I'm a Raiders fan, too.
Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> Raiders fan?
He doesn't He doesn't watch. He doesn't watch.
Hey. Hey. You guys Hey. You guys have a blessed day.
What are you guys doing?
What are we doing? We're videoing for.
For what?
Should we tell her? Yeah, tell me, bro.
Should we really tell her? Yeah, tell me. Don't spoil the whole thing. Nah, I can spoil it. We're from the Memory Loss Support Group. Of what? We lose our memory a lot, so we have to record everything we do so at night we can remember what we did all day. But you realize this is like crazy intimidating, right? Intimidating? I'm the nicest person.
Why the mask? Hold on. You say intimidating, but you come out by yourself and talk to us. Well, cuz I'm not intimidated. That's good.
You're fine. There's no reason to be intimidated.
Just trying to get a rise out of Okay, we'll do the same. This guy's getting a rise out of You're getting a rise Look, you're getting a rise out of me and I understand that.
Wait, I just wanted to thank you.
I just wanted to be informed.
Well, I told you exactly what we're doing.
What?
All right. Man, he's trying to rile you up.
We are just walking up to people with masks and recording them like, "What are y'all doing?"
>> dude.
Okay, you're weird.
The proliferation of public surveillance is almost always marketed under the banner of public safety.
We are told that the unblinking eye of the camera is a necessary shield, a digital witness that protects the vulnerable and ensures that justice is served. Cameras solve cold cases, find missing children, and provide evidence that was once lost to history.
But this brings us to the paradox of the monitored peace. At what point does the infrastructure meant to protect us become the primary threat to our way of life? By attempting to eliminate every conceivable risk, we are inadvertently eliminating the very freedoms that make a society worth protecting. This paradox is most visible in our residential neighborhoods where the private public has emerged. Every digital doorbell is a node in a massive privatized surveillance network that often bypasses traditional Fourth Amendment protections.
We have effectively crowdsourced the police state, turning neighbors into amateur wardens and sidewalks into monitored corridors. While we may feel safer from the other, we have become more exposed than ever to the system.
As the wall between the observer and the observed disappears, we must ask if a world with zero forgotten moments is a world we actually want to inhabit.
The safety provided by the lens is a cold comfort if the price is the permanent loss of our ability to simply exist without being seen.
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