Americans are notoriously protective of our privacy, deeming it a fundamental human right. I agree, and ... “Amid a protest movement ignited by a video showing police brutality—a police officer pressing his knee against the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes—hundreds of other incidents and videos are documenting cases of violent police tactics in the United States. “They are often captured by bystanders and sometimes on live television—a compilation posted on Twitter by a North Carolina lawyer included over 300 clips by Friday morning. And they have occurred in cities large and small, in the heat of mass protests and in their quiet aftermath.” It’s because there are cameras in cellphones that we are able to have this evidence. For which I’m grateful, and ... this is the flip side of our insistence on privacy.

Read More