Trade-offs over our personal privacy are all around us, CLA’s Vice-President Tim Vines says in this story from The Australian, but often we get no chance to have our say about what level of privacy we want, and our consent is assumed. It shouldn’t be, he says.
CCTV can be useful, Mr Vines says, but in a very small number of circumstances. The problem is, he says, people get lulled into a false sense of security.