But most of our rethinking will concern law-how we will balance understandable demands for improved security with our right to privacy, our freedom to travel, our free speech, our policy of welcoming immigrants, and our commitment to a tolerant society. ... Cameras meant to capture, "red-handed" so to speak have also made a few headlines, people who run stop lights. We can expect September 11 to shift the debate about such surveillance, with more citizens preferring the comfort of the cameras instead of the somewhat greater freedom of anonymity. The debates about privacy, free speech, and ...

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This essay will highlight the style and aforementioned issues which resulted from The Thin Blue Line. Following more classical notions of documentary theory, truth is often related to the cameras ability to gather and record. ... This resulted in the rise of cinema verite's claim to truth, which was based on the ability of technology to produce portable equipment that enabled the camera to gather and record information more reliably than ever before. ... That is, to free Randall Adams by using the most effective means possible. This motivation also enabled Morris to empower t...

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As Ellen DeGeneres puts it in her essay "This is How We Live," "Phones have gone through such an evolution. ... In "Pearls before Breakfast: Joshua Bell on the Subway", Gene Weingarten notes that although one of the best musicians in the world was playing violin for free from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station, most people didn't notice him because they were preoccupied and had other things on their minds: "Some who were on cellphones spoke louder as they passed [him], to compete with that infernal racket" (486). ... In "Stalking Celebriti...

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