Selling security, delivering anxiety: The rise of home surveillance camerasThe Spinoff Daily, Tuesday July 16
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: How the pandemic impacted eating disorders across Aotearoa, why Auckland can consider itself a proper big city now and the sports lads are back – along with their lame jokes. But first: Why do so many of us install security cameras – and are they breaching other people’s rights?
Gabi Lardies: “Pixelated, fish-eyed and taken from a high angle. There’s the front doormat, warped porch rafters, the footpath beyond a fence, and a stranger. Security camera images have an aesthetic that makes people look inherently suspicious, and they’re popping up on community Facebook groups with increasing frequency. Usually the posts accompanying them say things like ‘beware, this person stole my package’ or ‘Please PM me if you have any info on this person’. Sometimes it’s ‘an uninvited nocturnal prowler’ or ‘a reminder to stay vigilant’. Having a camera has emboldened some of us to become small-time neighbourhood cops. These posts are symptomatic of a larger trend. Surveillance should no longer be thought of as the domain of a big brother state, but rather of Karen down the road. Our neighbourhoods are more heavily surveilled than ever before, and that surveillance is virtually unregulated because it’s being done by individuals as opposed to companies or organisations that are regulated under the Privacy Act.”
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