Consider how many cameras there are in modern cities and towns everywhere, all the time, everywhere. Security cameras (both government-owned and privately owned), traffic cameras, dash cameras, Google Earth cars, and in fact almost every single person nowadays carries around at least one camera capable of taking photos and video. And, on that last point, it's very common for people to use those cellphone cameras they carry around all the time.
Yet, regardless of all these hundreds and hundreds of cameras all around us filming our every single move in public, put a person with an "old-fashioned" camera in his hand on a street filming, and suddenly many people start acting very strangely, especially at some places (such as many towns and cities in the United States).
They don't mind the dozens of security cameras all around them, nor the dash cameras, nor people with cellphones taking photos and video... but for some reason if some guy is holding an old-fashioned camera they suddenly become completely irrational.
To this day I have never seen a single one of them explain what's different about that, compared to all those other cameras.
Check for example this video by Amagansett Press (who is one of the nicest auditors out there). Particularly check how the older guy starting at 15:00 behaves. His behavior is completely irrational and unjustified, simply because there are two guys holding cameras. (And this is a very mild case of irrational behavior. There are much, much worse, such as literal physical assault, completely unprovoked.)
I honestly cannot understand why people behave like that. They literally do not care that there's probably like a dozen cameras, both government-owned and private, filming them all the time everywhere in public (and in some other videos when confronted with this fact they usually just dodge the question and refuse to explain why it's different), but when someone is holding a clear camera in his hand, suddenly that's a huge problem.
Why? What's the difference.
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