Brickbat: Look Away

In Canada, the City of Hamilton told Dan Myles to take down 10 security cameras from the outside of his house. Officials say Myles broke a rule that prevents people from filming beyond their own property. Myles says his cameras are important for fighting crime, and police have even used his videos to help solve crimes in his neighborhood, but a former privacy commissioner says people have a right to privacy on public property. Myles has appealed the city's order.
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Just have Mother's Lament (with a Head Full of Cement, up there in the Great White Northern Inner Islamic Repukelick of Canucklickistanistanistanistanistanistanistanistan) slut-strut in front of all of these cameras! She is SOOOOO smugly-ugly that ALL of the cameras would immediately barf and die! Problems solved!
(You may thank me later.)
Oh Canada ,there's no hope for you.
...a former privacy commissioner says people have a right to privacy on public property.
No rights on your own property, eh.
The cameras probably capture a bit of gay activity.
I'm not holding my breath for government cameras to be equivalently limited. Do they ban tourists taking souvenir pictures? Or even natives?
Morons. I wonder who he pissed off.
Myles has posted videos of break-ins online.
This is the big no-no in Canada, but so is self-defense.