TOTN: Surveillance cameras more good than bad?

On a Talk of the Nation broadcast this week, a guest extolled the virtues of ubiquitous surveillance cameras.

Reason magazine's Katherine Mangu-Ward argues that the proliferation of video cameras in public spaces leaves little room for personal privacy, and may not be such a bad thing.

You can click on the link above to listen to the interview, or read my summary notes on Mangu-Ward's comments here. Your call.

-Proposals to force private businesses to install surveillance cameras is bad, but cameras installed by the government in public areas have great societal advantages.
-Important to guard against misuse of cameras, but the cameras make us safer. For example, cameras caught terrorist bombers in London on tape.
-Cameras in public spaces not only protect us from criminals, but from ill-behaving police as well.
-To fight the inevitability of surveillance camera ubiquity is futile.
-We should fight for the right of private owners to reject mandatory surveillance cameras.

Mangu-Ward's recent newspaper editorial prompted this TOTN discussion.