[jak92]

Surveillance cameras everywhere are bad enough, now we want to bug our children? This madness needs to end.

Watched people are not free people.

[tcd]

Does a child have a smartphone? Congratulations, they're being tracked everywhere they go.

[gregcrv]

Surveillance cameras are already in most infant's rooms and even sometimes cribs.

[huehehue]

That's a bit of a special case. Infants don't understand the concept of privacy, and you're not ruining a baby's future childhood by keeping an eye on their breathing via private video feed. You can't really educate an infant into not spontaneously dying so they sort of need constant surveillance until they can think and speak on their own.

[drugme]

Surveillance cameras are already in most infant's rooms

Do you know this is true?

Or do you just... "think" it's true?

[fooblitzky]

I'm just curious how many commenters in this thread have children themselves? It would be interesting to see a poll showing the split between parents/non-parents.

[sctb]

You've been posting a lot unsubstantive, uncivil, or flamebait comments. We've asked you already to please stop, and we'll ban the account if you won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[madez]

If somebody doesn't want to influence you, they don't surveil you. The contraposition is more revealing; If somebody surveils you, then they do it to influence you.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Which country has an "oppressive liberal government" at the moment?