Africa: How CCTV Surveillance Poses a Threat to Privacy in South Africa

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Locational privacy is a fairly new and novel aspect of privacy rights. It refers to the right of people to move about freely, without having their movements tracked.

But as CCTV cameras become more widespread in public spaces for use in a range of functions such as crime-fighting, it's becoming more difficult for people to protect this kind of privacy in public spaces.

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