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If you’re sitting there taking notes it is obvious what you’re doing and the users of the machine can opt out of using it. With hidden cameras, not so much.
It’s a public space. You have no expectation of privacy. It’s the same reason license plate scanners are a thing.
It’s the automated equivalent of eyes.
Yeah. I hate the idea of license plate scanners.
Not every country has those laws, and in a lot of them you have expectation of privacy in public!