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...some Americans, the quest for safety has taken a step too far - into the precarious realm of personal space and individual privacy. Case in point: Two weeks ago, Tampa police installed 36 surveillance cameras in Ybor City, a popular entertainment district. The cameras capture the faces of pedestrians and send those images back to a police-run computer database that houses up to 30,000 photographs of wanted felons and lost children. If a face in Ybor City comes up as a match in the sophisticated system, police are dispatched to the area to get a better look...
...everyone is thrilled with Ybor City?s latest attraction. Last weekend, protesters gathered on the district?s streets wearing bandannas, gas masks and Groucho Marx-style glasses and moustaches - anything to hide their features and thwart the cameras. "Digitize this!" one of them shouted, thrusting a finger into the camera lens...
...debate over video surveillance is not new - but new technology may take it to a whole new level. Other high-traffic cities around the country, including Virginia Beach, are debating the idea of installing their own sidewalk surveillance cameras - and keeping a close eye on what happens in Ybor City...
...Ybor City, of course, it?s not just hysterical drug dealers who are caught on camera, it?s Joe Shmo and his lovely wife and kids out for a stroll in the evening. And if the surveillance cameras snap a few shots, and none of the Shmo family faces sets off the photo database, it seems reasonable to wonder what good the cameras could possibly be doing - and to feel a vicarious sense of outrage on behalf of the entire Shmo family. But let?s imagine a different scenario: Say little Suzy Shmo is actually Jane Doe - whose frantic parents...
...clubs of Ybor or the fine dining of Bern's that is putting the fear of God into some of the coaches. Rather, it is Tampa's traditional signature source of entertainment: strip clubs...