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6 - Privacy and Public Disclosure

from Part II - Audiovisual Big Data’s Great Potential and Perils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2019

Mary D. Fan
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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This chapter is about the privacy and public disclosure challenges posed by police recordings. Officers enter our most private places and intervene at some of the worst moments of our lives. The spread of body cameras small enough to go everywhere an officer goes—and community members ready to record and post videos on social media—poses potentially grave privacy harms. Communities also are wrestling with how to balance privacy protection with public disclosure. Also known as freedom of information or sunshine laws, public disclosure laws give people the right to demand access to records held by the government to facilitate democratic governance, transparency, anticorruption efforts, and public trust. Without sufficient safeguards, a requester could get police videos and post people's sensitive and potentially painful and humiliating moments on venues like YouTube. To address the problem, some states exempt body camera footage from disclosure altogether. Others protect certain categories of sensitive footage. Others require redaction. Police department policies also detail when body cameras should or may be shut off to protect privacy. This chapter delves into the costs and benefits of the different approaches to balancing privacy protection and public disclosure.
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Camera Power
Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data
, pp. 156 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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