I’m not a TechDirt fanboy, I’m a liberty fanboy. Just to point out the subtle difference.

First, please refrain from making my arguments for me. You are doing a poor job of it. I can make my own points, which are much better.

Second, we are discussing a LOCAL government, so you don’t have to find anything in the Constitution about Right to Privacy, because that’s the contract with the People and the FEDERAL government. Though, you may want to look into Amendment X for Right to Privacy in the federal government … which states:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

So, since the Constitution didn’t give the federal government the right to spy on its people, it inherently protects the rights of the people FROM that.

Third, I at no point said there is a right to privacy to begin with (though as shown, there is an interpretation to an implied right to privacy in the Bill of Rights in regards to the federal government). In fact as I said the only way to avoid the camera system is to NOT go in public. When one leaves their private property and enters public space, they are not entitled to any right to privacy. I don’t see a problem inherent with cameras in public. I see a problem with the government running programs that it simply doesn’t need to be doing, wasting taxpayer’s stolen money and creating a system for corruption & abuse … as shown here again with a stalker gaining access to a local government funded camera system, fairly quickly & easily it seems.

Lastly, you do make a correct point: I claim governments ARE inherently different from private entities. I can choose to voluntarily interact with a private entity or not. I do not have such choice with government. It is essentially on all levels different. The government forces interaction with me at the end of a gun. If you want to equate government to a private industry, you are saying that the government is a gang.

The only private industry that operates in the same manner as the government is the mob, extorting protection money and providing substandard services that favor corruption and backroom deals that benefit themselves and their cohorts at the expense of the abused.

Most other private industries operate on a voluntary basis, yet the IRS doesn’t appreciate it when I choose not to participate in their supposedly voluntary system and don’t pay for services I neither want, need, nor use. But hey, I guess private industries are wanting in on that action these days, too … with their “right to get paid” coming out of thin air. You want to talk about rights not mentioned in the Constitution!