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The Buffalo News - Say What?

The Buffalo News article published August 18th was specifically slanted to examine webcams and their use for video surveillance. Why the News chose to include buffalowebcam in this article is somewhat uncertain...in as much as video surveillance is not what buffalowebcam is all about. Never have people's pictures been captured for any other purpose at all, except when they emailed and asked us to do so for their own personal use.
On the contrary, buffalowebcam is about the everyday image of western New York. Hopefully, it is these images that motivate people to find out more about living here, and coming here to spend money on the various goods and services that Buffalo and the Niagara frontier has to offer. One individual, Charles Okonski, from Los Angeles, actually made a special trip to Elmwood Avenue, not only to have lunch at Pano's and shop at Half and Half, but to request a screen capture of his family for relatives and friends. Why the News article chose to quote two women shopping in Half and Half, that had obviously never even seen the cam pages, is again strange. If the author, Stephen Hagenbuch, had been to the cam pages himself, he might have told these women that their image was so relatively small that no one would have recognized them anyways...thus assuaging their fears of privacy invaison.