"Blind operator" - unsuccessful joke or alarm?

Recently, a series of provocative videos appeared on the Internet, shot by an anonymous author, who received the nickname “Creepy Cameraman”. The video captured the reaction of people whom he shot without their permission, brazenly violating the boundaries of private space. Naturally, the majority reacted negatively and even aggressively.



But the goal of the “dumb operator” is not just to tease people. With this series of videos, he raises a much deeper question - why do people quite calmly regard the fact that they are constantly being filmed by surveillance cameras? In cafes and restaurants, in shops and banks, and just on the streets - exactly the same cameras as the one in his hands, and people do not know who will use this video and how.









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Why do people unconditionally trust the government, the police and the administration of shops and other public places, but do not tolerate the camera in the hands of a bystander? This issue is particularly acute with the advent of devices such as Google Glass. Today, the “stingy operator” is an anomaly, but what if tomorrow every second becomes the same “dumb operator”, wearing glasses with a camera that can automatically download everything we see on Google or another corporation's servers?



Do not we repeat the fate of the notorious frog in boiling water ? A network of surveillance cameras is increasingly entwining modern cities - will we not wake up one morning in the Orwellian future, will we stop to take the phrase “video surveillance in the toilet for your safety” as a joke?



Whether these concerns are justified or not - we have yet to find out. Perhaps, in the near future, instead of stickers on the doors of the café, warning that there is video surveillance, stickers will hang that observation is NOT conducted, unlike any other place. Will we feel more comfortable in such a cafe, or vice versa, fear that here we are much more likely to cheat or rob?