[philman_36]

"Chicago's camera network invades the freedom to be anonymous in public places, a key aspect of the fundamental American right to be left alone," the report states. "Each of us then will wonder whether the government is watching and recording us when we walk into a psychiatrist's office, a reproductive health care center, a political meeting, a theater performance, or a book store."
I'm not keen on security cameras as the potential for abuse is very great, but I find this reasoning illogical.
Unless everyone has already been, or can be (such as facial recognition through a drivers license database), identified by the government or unless everybody knows who everyone else is then we're all still pretty much anonymous.
It's specious thinking and my initial reaction is that there is an ulterior motive.

[VRWCtaz]

When you combine facial recognition technology with ever increasing computing power, cheap vast memory capacity, and a network of surveillance cameras you have a recipe for abuse. I do not have a solution to this as the proverbial genie is out of the bottle. I'm just saying the concepts of privacy and anonymity are, in a word, quaint.