The New Zealand Herald explores a recent North Shore City Council decision on surveillance cameras in an editorial about the balance between security and privacy. The council ordered the removal of a Torbay couple's security cameras, which they had implemented as a crime deterrent. "Clearly, there are valid privacy concerns," the report states, "and local councils have a responsibility to assess these." The paper notes that the continued emergence of new surveillance technologies will "pose a whole new set of issues. As will keep being the case as we seek to balance a right to privacy against the imperatives of security."
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