This is definitely more "for the children" thinking. That is, the kind of thinking that figures anything is ok, so long as it can be portrayed as making children safer. This bill making its way through the New York state legislature probably won't make many (or any!) kids safer, but it's already gathered the sort…
It seeks to safeguard the privacy of commuters and their travels from public scrutiny, identity thieves, merchants, scammers and from the government itself.
Legislation backed by the Oscar winner would make recording children in public without parents’ consent a misdemeanor in New York punishable by up to a .