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Digital Video Surveillance Cameras are Easily Manipulated.

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Digital video surveillance cameras are not as safe as people may believe.

If a person has enough training, practice or knowledge, that person can do just about anything with digital information.

It is not difficult at all do manipulate digital photographs, with a few hours of practice, you could make use of any of a variety of reasonably prices photo editing software programs and place one person’s head on another person’s body.

The same principles apply to editing digital video, a person skilled in digital video editing could put a person in a section of footage which that person was not originally in, or could remove a person from a section of video.

Digital video surveillance cameras are accessible to knowledgeable hackers, or for that matter people employed as technical specialists by the government.

If there is something on a computer, which would be any digital data or images, which is attached to a computer, it is findable to anyone who has a strong desire to find it.

If the government has the desire to track an individual, they would be able to do so through the use of these digital videos, which they may access, but with questionable legality.

If it is illegal for an individual in society to use their skills as a hacker, why would it not be illegal for the government to do the same thing?

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Increased Use of Digital Surveillance

While it seems like it would make a lot of sense to increase the use of digital video surveillance cameras due to the increased risk of terrorism in the United States in the last eight years, this is not necessarily true.

More so, it is a free pass for the government to watch anyone they would like to.

The public should be provided with documentation of success against terrorism.

Citizens should be kept informed of actions taken to stop attacks. Have any terrorists been stopped?

All the general population sees is that the government has free reign to watch everyone and there are no results to show for it.

Increasing the use of digital surveillance does not benefit the everyday citizen, but rather the corporations who are creating the digital video cameras and other technologies being used for surveillance.

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Accuracy of Digital Video Surveillance

A person might ask themselves how accurate can digital video surveillance cameras be?

Untampered footage from digital video surveillance can be extremely accurate and detailed.

Unfortunately, tampering is not as difficult as it would seem.

Once there is a new technology released, there is a person out there trying to find a way around it, a way to ruin it or a way to manipulate it.

There are people who design computer viruses just for fun that will destroy entire networks.

People should not be naïve enough to think that there are not people doing the same thing with the safeguards of every other piece of technology.

For the most part, the people working toward the manipulation of these things are not the upstanding citizens of today’s society.

How can each person safeguard themselves against this type of inaccuracy or blatant manipulation? Currently they cannot.

There is currently too much out there, too much leeway on what can be monitored.

There needs to be restrictions put in place. The government cannot be allowed to run rampant.

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