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Old Nov 11, 2011 | 8:42 pm
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Originally Posted by afraidofflying
I always wonder if those surveillance videos record sound. I never see any airport video with sound. Is it a violation of privacy if it does record sound as it could record people's private conversation with their banks/credit card reps over the phones?

Let me know if they do record sound and a clip of it. Thanks.
It would be nearly impossible to do an audio recording of a TSA checkpoint and pick out individual conversations over the ambient noise level. That's why it's so important for us to record any confrontations with them on out own video equipment. The only way for the airport camera operators to do this would be to use one of those large parabolic reflectors you see at football games to pick out a single conversation.
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