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a Real Bust That Didn’t Come Cheap, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, Jan. 19, 2007, at 6B
(“[T]he results are in: The plan bombed.”).
47. See DAVID BRIN, THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY: WILL TECHNOLOGY FORCE US TO
CHOOSE BETWEEN PRIVACY AND FREEDOM 52–54, 149–78 (1999).
48. See Neal Feigenson & Meghan A. Dunn, New Visual Technologies in Court: Directions for
Research, 27 L. & HUMAN BEHAV. 109 (2003) (discussing how recent advances in visual
technologies will affect legal decision-making, with reference to many cases that have altered
the way courtrooms incorporate new technologies).
49. The Anderson County jailcam was discontinued as of November 27, 2006; the Web site
no longer discusses its removal. It was formerly accessible at http://www.tnacso.net/
cont/jailcam.php.
50. Assoc. Press, Tenn. Jail Web Cam Jeopardizes Security, BOSTON GLOBE, Nov. 25, 2006, http:
//www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/11/25/tenn_jail_web_cam_jeopardizes
_security/ (noting that Maricopa County, Arizona, also shut down its camera after losing
a lawsuit by inmates alleging abuse of their rights).
51. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the passing of the USA PATRIOT Act,
the government has been increasingly likely to take an active role in issues of electronic
surveillance. For an overview of surveillance law and its shifting usage by the government,
see Daniel J. Solove, Reconstructing Electronic Surveillance Law, 72 GEO. WASH. L.
REV. 1264, 1278–80 (2004).
52. See DANIEL J. SOLOVE, THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE IN-
FORMATION AGE 2–7, 13–26 (2004) (expressing concern about the collection of information
held in commercial databases, public records, and government files).
53. See Kang & Cuff, supra note 13, at 134–42.
54. The largest difference may arise from the fact that invasions of privacy implicate the dignity
of individuals rather than firms’ profits, and thus there is no natural lobby to organize
against this personal intrusion.
55. Expert: LAPD Officers’ Behavior Not Unreasonable, ABC NEWS, Nov. 11, 2006, http:
//abcnews.go.com/GMA/storyid2646425; Video: LA Police Brutality (posted by
3101010 on YouTube, Nov. 10, 2006), http://www.youtube.com/watchv7_ gFJJXL
v28.
56. Video: Bus Uncle (posted by beautyjeojihyun on YouTube, May 11, 2006), http:// www
.youtube.com/watchvRSHziqJWYcM.
57. Id.
58. Hong Kong’s “Bus Uncle” Beaten Up by Three Men, CHANNEL NEWSASIA, June 8, 2006,
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/212671/1/.html.
59. Jonathan Krim, Subway Fracas Escalates into Test of the Internet’s Power to Shame, WASH.
POST, July 7, 2005, at D1, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070601953.html.
60. For details on Star Wars Kid, see Wikipedia, Star Wars Kid, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki
/Star_Wars_kid (as of June 1, 2007, 10:00 GMT).
61. Star Wars Kid Is Top Viral Video, BBC NEWS, Nov. 27, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/
hi/entertainment/6187554.stm.
62. See, e.g., Heather Adler, Stephen Colbert Aims His Lightsaber at Star Wars, DOSE.CA,