{"id":9814,"date":"2026-06-11T01:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:01:05","slug":"surveillance-means-spying-on-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/surveillance-means-spying-on-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance means Spying on Someone !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surveillance Means Spying on Someone !<\/strong><\/p>\n

(c) 2026 David j Dilworth<\/p>\n

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Please take a moment to absorb the CIA’s definitions of Surveillance<\/strong> —<\/p>\n

“The systematic observation or monitoring of places, persons or things by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.”<\/em><\/strong>
\n-Glossary of Intelligence Terms & Definitions, June 15, 1978, for the CIA Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Multiple Sightings at Time and Distance”<\/strong><\/em>
\n– John Kirakou: Operations Officer for the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, personally targeted for assassination by a foreign agent surveilling him.<\/p>\n

That means the basic threshold<\/span> for when Surveillance occurs is — When any equipment or person observes a person or materials in two different places at two different times.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This means any activity with two or more cameras, detectors or sensors in close proximity, or one camera detecting a person twice over a time interval – is conducting Surveillance — according to the<\/strong> US government surveillance experts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This means surveillance is occuring — even if the picture or video is not saved or analyzed.<\/p>\n

But when video or images\u00a0 are saved or analyzed<\/em> – that constitutes a higher level of surveillance. Saved or analyzed images can be surveillance – without multiple sightings !<\/em>
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Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For several years the City of Monterey has operated at least three, likely dozens, of cameras recording, storing and analyzing vehicles and license plate numbers; such as those on Pacific, Lighthouse & Del Monte Avenues.<\/p>\n

The City of Monterey wants to pretend they are not conducting Surveillance on innocent people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, according to the CIA’s definitions, the City of Monterey is clearly conducting Surveillance on every innocent person who drives or walks on Lighthouse and Del Monte Avenues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worse, Monterey is storing the information. And then outrageously they are Conducting analysis on every car with innocent residents caught by their cameras with license plate readers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Law:<\/strong>
\nYou have some powerful rights in California that are not taught in Law School.<\/p>\n

California Constitution, Article 1, Section 1<\/strong> – (unlike our Federal Constitution)<\/p>\n

Declares Every California Citizen has a Right to Privacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“All people are by nature free and independent and have INALIENABLE RIGHTS.<\/span> Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining<\/span> safety, happiness, and PRIVACY.<\/span>“<\/strong><\/em> (Article 1, Section 1)<\/p>\n

This EXPLICIT Privacy Right is not “duck-taped” on – like our Rights in the Federal Constitution. This PRIVACY Right is in the Second LINE of our Constitution, and overwhelmingly Approved by California Voters.<\/p>\n

Further (they never teach this is law school either), California Rights<\/strong> are not merely for criminal trial Defense, they are Rights where you can offensively sue violators to get paid damages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nor do they teach this in law schools —
\nUnlike US Constitutional Rights, California Rights are “Self-Executing rights”<\/strong> meaning you can litigate to protect them (sue) without needing any other “enabling” law.<\/p>\n

Installing a Global Positioning System<\/a> <\/strong>(GPS) tracking device<\/a> on a vehicle and using the device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment<\/a><\/strong>. United States v. Jones<\/b><\/i>, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)<\/a><\/p>\n

Analyzing multiple government observations of human locations Violates our US Constitutional Right to Privacy. Carpenter v United States<\/a> 585<\/a> U.S.<\/a> 296<\/a> (2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analysis & Opinion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

No California resident gives up their RIGHT to PRIVACY and Freedom from Surveillance<\/strong> by driving a car, or walking into a camera’s field of view.<\/p>\n

Clearly, The City of Monterey is violating the Privacy Rights of every person who drives on Pacific, Lighthouse and Del Monte Avenues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remedy: What can be done about this? Three choices.<\/p>\n

1. The City can immediately remove all the equipment violating our Privacy Rights to stop ongoing and further Privacy Rights Violations and destroy all saved data and related records, or<\/p>\n

2. Individual California citizens (not merely Monterey city residents) can sue the city for previous and ongoing intentional and cumulative damages to their privacy rights, or<\/p>\n

3. Multiple California citizens can sue Monterey city as a Class for intentional previous, ongoing and cumulative damages to their privacy rights.<\/p>\n

“Legally recognized privacy interests are generally of two classes: (1) interests in precluding the dissemination or misuse of sensitive and confidential information (“informational privacy”); and (2) interests in making intimate personal decisions or conducting personal activities without observation, intrusion, or interference (“autonomy privacy”).”<\/strong><\/em>
\n-California Supreme Court,<\/p>\n

2) Second essential element of a state constitutional cause of action for invasion of privacy is a reasonable expectation of privacy on plaintiff’s part.<\/p>\n

Outrageous excuse: The Court concluded You recieved “advance notice of an impending action may serve to ” ‘limit [an] intrusion upon personal dignity and security’.<\/p>\n

Satire of that absurd argument: So if I warn you with advance notice that I’m going to steal your wallet — that eliminates all harm from the theft.
\nAbsurd !<\/p>\n

3) Serious Breach – Not Merely Offensive<\/strong>
\n“Actionable invasions of privacy must be sufficiently serious in their nature, scope, and actual or potential impact to constitute an egregious breach of the social norms underlying the privacy right. Thus, the extent and gravity of the invasion is an indispensable consideration in assessing an alleged invasion of privacy.”<\/p>\n

“… not a violation of the state constitutional right to privacy if the invasion is justified by a competing interest.”
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\nDissent by Justice George: ” . . .no justification exists for limiting the reach of the state constitutional privacy provision only to those breaches of privacy that are “egregious.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Justice George was right: – Only a Competing Constitutional RIGHT can eliminate a Declared Right<\/strong> – Not a Competing “Interest.”<\/p>\n

Example given: ” For example, if intrusion is limited and confidential information is carefully shielded from disclosure except to those who have a legitimate need to know, privacy concerns are assuaged.”<\/p>\n

WRONG – There is no Constitutional Right to Intrusion !<\/strong>
\nAnd we now know there is no such creature as ” confidential information is carefully shielded from disclosure<\/p>\n

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