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JOCELYNE LLOYD: An expectation of privacy

If there’s one thing I know as an avid consumer of British crime shows where CCTV is often the main plot driver, it’s that no matter where you go, you’re likely to be on camera. The preponderance of recording devices on both sides of the pond is only increasing — and too often their purpose is not to prevent or solve crimes, but to commit them.

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Far be it for me as a journalist to argue against the use of recording devices in public. I have too often relied on the notion that ordinary citizens going about their business in public spaces can’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy when our reporters’ cameras are shooting for a news story.

However, a Halifax woman walking out of her bathroom and into the bedroom of her seventh-floor downtown apartment should, in fact, have had every reason to expect her movements were not on display to random strangers. Instead, the woman recently told the Chronicle-Herald, she was shocked to see a drone hovering outside her bedroom window.

“It was just floating there. I thought it was a bird at first,” she told the reporter. She said the device was pointed toward her large bedroom window and stayed there as she stared it down for 30 or 40 seconds.

“As soon as I started to walk toward it, it flew........

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