Cameras everywhere

The place where I currently work is on camera all the time. It's not a great feeling. Reading this article by Ava about a shop surveilling its customers in the hopes of reposting the video as social media content made me think about how I am, for the first time, working in a very surveilled environment. Note: I am intentionally very vague about where I am working because I don't want to appear in search results. Even if you can infer where it is, keep it to yourself. As someone who has dealt with crushing social anxiety and was bullied as a kid, I obviously have a very negative opinion of people filming or photographing strangers in public. I will make exceptions for broad crowd shots, but even then I don't they should be posted publicly on widely accessible websites because of the risk to vulnerable populations. But the fact is that in our current legal and cultural environment, taking photos of strangers without their consent and then sharing those photos is considered normal and…