[Avodah] Shomrim Video on Shabbos

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/8s2xopz

    Publicly funded security cameras planned for Brooklyn's heavily
    Orthodox Boro Park neighborhood should not be directly accessible to
    the police, said the leader of the community's influential volunteer
    security patrol...

    Jacob Daskal, coordinator of the Boro Park Shomrim...

Question: Does this mean that people in BP will no longer be able to
walk in the street on Shabbos and Yom Tov since they are being "filmed"
by these cameras?

  From http://tinyurl.com/8pfl7n6

A leading Israeli rabbi has declared the Western Wall off limits to the
faithful on the holiest day of the week because of security cameras that
he says desecrate the Sabbath.

The trouble at the wall is with technology, said Rabbi Yosef Shalom
Eliashiv, a 100-year-old rabbinical authority widely revered among
ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Eliashiv says those coming into view of the closed-circuit surveillance
cameras activate a light inside the devices, violating the prohibition
on operating electronics on Shabbat.

The rabbi overseeing the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, said he
and the Jerusalem police were working to fix the problem.

On the other hand, the following is from http://fwd4.me/17RC Halachic
Issues Commonly Encountered During a Hotel Stay on Shabbat and Yom Tov.

Although Rashba's leniency is not the normative opinion, R. Zalman N.
Goldberg (in the journal Ateret Shlomo, Vol. VI) uses it as a mitigating
factor in allowing one to walk in front of a surveillance camera. He
claims that being photographed is not considered a direct action unless
one intends to be photographed. If one merely walks in front of the
camera, the melechet machshevet is lacking and it is not considered a
direct action.

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