Comments will be ＂live＂ when eating, exercising and surfing the Internet？ Citizen privacy can be ＂streaking＂!
CCTV News:Have you ever thought that from the moment you step into a restaurant, gym or internet cafe, your every move has been broadcast live on the internet through surveillance cameras? Even being judged by the audience in front of the screen?
Recently, a post-90s girl questioned a production enterprise in smart cameras, saying that a live broadcast platform of her company kept playing all kinds of monitoring pictures from many merchants, but the people who were "broadcast live" were unaware of it, causing an uproar.
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Enterprise: Whether to turn on the live broadcast function depends on the merchant.
The manufacturer responded that the live broadcast is one of the important functions of the camera and is turned off by default. Whether to start the live broadcast is up to the merchants to decide. In addition, the platform requires merchants to set up obvious prompts in the live broadcast area and organize teams to conduct content review. The problem is that some businesses "have not fulfilled their obligation to inform consumers".
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Merchant: What privacy can you have after a meal?
Some merchants choose live broadcast because of publicity considerations. When asked why monitoring was put on the live broadcast platform, many merchants said, "This is the pot of the platform." "What privacy can a meal have?" "Nobody pays attention to what you are doing in the Internet cafe."
In addition, there are media reports that a large number of indecent videos recorded in hotels and other places by using the camera products of this enterprise have appeared on the Internet recently. The national office of "eliminating pornography and illegal publications" responded by saying that once the relevant acts are verified, they will be severely punished. Camera manufacturers also expressed their support for the special action to control the use of various webcams to record obscene and pornographic videos.
Originally a smart cameras for security monitoring, it is an auxiliary device to prevent hidden dangers and ensure safety, but now it has become a "security risk" itself, and many netizens expressed regret and even fear. In the Internet age, news that citizens’ privacy has been violated is not uncommon. Can personal privacy be "streaked"? Can you stand the torture of reason law?
CCTV comment: The right to know is denied, the right to privacy is violated, and it is time to manage it.
This kind of incident is not the first time, and it does not only exist in public places. Some people were "judged", some were "poked" and some were even photographed as "indecent videos". Being placed under hundreds of millions of pairs of eyes, "streaking" in front of the camera always makes it difficult to feel safe. More importantly: where is the privacy of the public? Where is the boundary of the live broadcast? How does the live broadcast platform make a difference? When is the law not absent and more in place?
Public privacy is "brutally involved"
Live broadcast is not a simple technical act, it is related to the rights and obligations of everyone before and after the camera, so we must be cautious. When people question the merchants’ live broadcast behavior with the help of smart cameras, the response of "What privacy can you have for a meal" seems a bit perfunctory; When people question the supervision and responsibility of the live broadcast platform, the statement that "it is up to the merchants to start the live broadcast" is suspected of shirking responsibility.
No matter whether the merchants intentionally do it or the live broadcast platform neglects to slack off, as long as the public is not respected for the minimum right to know, but is infringed on the right to privacy, it is naked "barbaric intervention". In this regard, the public needs not only a necessary apology, but also actions to standardize use, strictly supervise and govern according to law.
"Live Bonus" Can’t Cover "Live Infringement"
To defend the public’s right to privacy and security, no one, no enterprise or no unit can be "arrogant" at all. It is true that the live broadcast farm contributes to the transparency of the production process, the live broadcast kindergarten helps parents to know their children’s situation in real time, and the live broadcast of the bright kitchen can create "sunshine catering" & HELIP; … Of course, live broadcast can promote public interests, but how to achieve a reasonable scope, proper methods and open means is the most critical.
In other words, the "live dividend" can’t cover up the "live infringement", and it can’t shirk its responsibility under the pretext of "live dividend". Just like "for children", we can’t open the live broadcast channel of kindergarten to everyone, otherwise, wouldn’t it open the door for "grandma wolf"?
Although technology has changed the way of life, technology developers and users should benefit the society with a humble heart and public responsibility, so as to put public interests first and traffic eyeballs behind. Doesn’t this reflect the value ranking of a technology and an enterprise?
Legislation and law enforcement must keep up in time
More importantly, for live broadcast, it is difficult for everyone to stay out of it; Everyone is not an outsider in protecting privacy.
According to the "Regulations on the Management of Internet Live Broadcasting Services", the platform has a "review obligation" for live broadcast content, and supervision and control cannot be "important when it is said, not when it is done";
According to the Network Security Law, network operators should establish a perfect user information protection system, collect, store, process and transfer personal information, and should inform them of their basic rights, not "self-righteous, wishful thinking";
According to the Tort Liability Law, Internet users and Internet service providers who use the Internet to infringe upon the civil rights and interests of others should bear the tort liability, and cannot "enforce the law lax and ignore the law".
In fact, compared with other countries’ legislation on anti-sneak shots, China’s legislation on live broadcast infringement has some problems, such as thick lines and difficult definition of law enforcement, which requires that legislation and law enforcement must keep up in time. Whether it is personal rights protection or effectively regulating the behavior of users and operators, governance according to law can be powerful and effective.
This is the era of technological civilization and the era of rule of law civilization. A camera can get a glimpse of social governance. To use a camera well requires more advanced technology, more responsible enterprises, a more powerful government and a more legal way, which has a long way to go.
CCTV News Special Contributor Huo Mu