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Body cameras help monitor police but can invade people's privacy

  • Written by Bryce C. Newell, Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy, University of Oregon
Body cameras help monitor police but can invade people's privacyPolice see some difficult scenes; body cameras can record those and make them public.Tony Webster via Flickr, CC BY-SA

In the course of their work, police officers encounter people who are intoxicated, distressed, injured or abused. The officers routinely ask for key identifying information like addresses, dates of birth and driver’s license...

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