Voyeurism is still a crime, right?

If someone says they have nothing to hide, I ask if they also leave the door open when they use a public rest room.

Yeah or tell them you need to look at all of their emails and texts right now. Will also need to listen to recordings of every phone call they've ever made.
- You can just do a foia request for that. Just put in very specific language, like "any and all communications containing the words "nr" "ft" "rd"" and that will get them paranoid af.
If they're in the USA they don't need to.
There's gaps all around the edges that a small child can fit through.
The right wing (small government? Don't look into things that aren't your business?) Would like to require genital checks before bathroom usage, but only for a certain "type"of person.

Fax it, scan it, and shred it, and baby you got a stew going

It's not illegal to monitor someone's smart water meter as it's not encrypted. You can tell whenever they shower or go to the bathroom and then send them a log of their activity. It's not illegal

Do you have a hobby of collecting restraining orders?
- You can't get a restraining order unless the person threatens you. It's also not stalking under my states law.
Creepy and stalkery, though.
- Do it to your local council so they know how it feels.
I'm not sure this is true... That's like saying it's OK to enter someone else's house because they accidentally left the door open. Just because it isn't encrypted doesn't mean it's meant for you to listen to.
Edit: I was under the impression that most smart meters used 4G (at least in the US)... Pretty sure it's illegal to listen to cell communications.
- They use an open frequency, not the cell network. You can use an inexpensive rtl-sdr to monitor them. People do it all the time to integrate their meter with home assistant.
  It's no different than looking at someone's WiFi network name.
I think your understanding of the law is sadly lacking and would definitely get you arrested.
- If it's an open radio signal then it's not illegal to listen to it. It's no different than a radio station.
Better yet, sell their showering activities to shower head manufacturers, and the NSA. Idk why the NSA wants to know when you shower, but I guarantee they do.
- The NSA is more bothered about the frequency of your showering.

Until I start getting paid for my data being used for profit of others then my privacy is a form of self value preservation.

And I'll look out my blinds at you if I want.

I'll take photos, say hi sometimes and wish you a good day. Welcome to a planet full of living creatures.

Watching people on the street in public is very different to staring into someone's house -- their private residence.
Or would you be happy with someone standing in front of your house, taking pictures of everything you do in your front room?
If you saw someone doing that, wouldn't you be tempted to close the blinds?

Who watches the Watchmen?

um, "free rein".

No, no, he had it right the first time: the sorts of people who want to look in your windows really do want to reign, like an autocrat.
- I thought it was "free reign" but reign as in the way you reign a horse -- you give your horse "free reign" to do as it wishes.
  EDIT : huh. Turns out I am right, but you "rein" a horse not "reign". Derp!
I thought it was free rain, like the water falling from the sky.
- Nah, you gotta pay for that.

Nah, it's a fetish. Don't be kink-shaming now!

The difference between a kink and a crime is consent.
- Well now you're just complicating things. But it's ok, that's a kink too.
Voyeurs and exhibitionists: name a more iconic duo.

I love this clipping. I can't use it since it's got a comma splice, and I can't promote that.

Upvote for comma splice hatred.

Everyone needs that neighborhood watch lady that knows what the fuck is up on the street though.

Pretty sure surveillance grandmas are meme everywhere in eastern Europe lol. Crews of like 3-4 old birds on stoops yelling at kids to quit stealing shit.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1208986-meanwhile-in

When I was a young adult we started getting concerned about the number of cameras popping up everywhere. Then some news story ran that said an average person is filmed around 20 times throughout the course of their day. We all found that to be horrifying. Now that number is probably several thousand times per day, and people do not fucking care. It doesn't make sense to me. I care, but I'm made to feel like a weirdo if I ever say that.
- CCTV cameras have somewhat of a different connotation though. They are in a public space, no one's pointing a camera into your front room, they are looking at streets and roads.
  I used to actually watch CCTV as a job (stupidly boring) trust me no one looks at that footage. They just have an algorithm that pulls up anything it deems relevant, and possibly AI now, then a human looks at that relevant 30 seconds of footage or whatever. Unless the monitoring systems flag something up, there is virtually zero chance anyone is going to have a look at it.
  In theory I could have used the cameras to watch a single person but in practice there are monitoring logs someone would have noticed what I was doing and called me out on it. Besides we were all far too busy watching the crows staring into the camera lens.

Ask Edward Snowden about the criminal penalties for voyarism.

Just flat out ask them to take off all of their clothes, you can't lose.

Either they start to backtrack and realize that they do actually have boundaries, or things are about to get sexy. Either way, big win.