Livestream craze raises privacy questions


A file photo of a woman runing on an icy crosswalk in the Woodley Park neighbourhood of Washington, DC. In an era where cameras and microphones are everywhere – from the pocket where you keep your smartphone to your front doorbell to the little speaker on the kitchen counter that will tell Amazon to bring you more paper towels – a livestream of a street corner isn't all that unusual in 2021. — AFP

SALEM: Nearly 1,000 people were watching Tuesday afternoon when a school bus went through a North Salem intersection without stopping.

It was the second day that a camera had been aimed at the intersection and the view livestreamed on the gaming platform Twitch. (An earlier livestream had shown another nearby intersection, until a resident expressed concerns about privacy and people showing up to mug for the camera.)

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