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The clearly established constitutionality of CCTV use in public areas rests on the concepts of "public area" and "reasonable expectation of privacy," as defined extensively in case law. To qualify as a constitutionally protected "reasonable expectation of privacy," the individual must have an actual expectation of privacy and that expectation must be one which society recognizes as reasonable.

The courts have consistently found that an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when he or she is in a public place. Behavior and activity exhibited in a public area is obviously available for observation by others. Similarly, there is no violation of personal privacy rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when an individuals public behavior is observed by a video camera.

Intro by Fritz Gnad: feezenfreezen.de

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