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Much of the video surveillance infrastructure in the US only intersects the State when authorities demand corroborating footage after local incidents that may have been recorded. Beyond zoning regulations, and in the context of permissive privacy laws that do little to address private surveillance of public spaces, there is no federal administrative framework that can provide hard statistics on the number of public-facing cameras in the US.

Anecdotal data and limited surveys contend that video camera diffusion in the US may be on a par with China, but it’s not easy to prove.

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