Don’t miss Radley Balko’s run-down on recording law enforcement at work.

The challenge is out there for rights groups and coders: fine-tune camera technology and remote storage so that evidence of police and government-agent behavior remains under the control of citizens and available to the public and courts.

Yours truly shows up in a good story on surveillance cameras on the Christian Broadcasting Network today. Watching the whole thing, I was impressed by the sophistication of the host, who observed in the discussion segment: “We’re giving up so much privacy in order to obtain the illusion of security.”