Opinion | Cameras Came to the Newsroom. What if They Catch Us Printing Springsteen Tickets?

In a little-noticed memo to the staff, The Times’s new security chief had announced that the company was installing cameras throughout the building.The note mentioned doorways and corridors. But by the time the mushrooms were done being planted, they were seemingly everywhere, including the work spaces where hundreds of Times employees perch at keyboards, writing, editing and — at least until the cameras started peering over our shoulders — doing the occasional shopping, date-seeking and cat-video research.In announcing the cameras, the company said they were being installed in part to “shorten incident response time.”Ah. That. And now in the newsroom.Writing in The Privacy Project, Kara Swisher, a Times contributing Opinion writer, summed up the response of many in the tech industry to people who lament the boundless incursions into their private lives: “Get over it!”“I don’t intend to,” she wrote, “and I don’t think anyone else should, either.”Ms. Swisher was talking about corporate data snatchers, but it’s pretty good advice all around. 11 attacks, people lined up dutifully at newly installed metal detectors to enter a skating rink in Central Park — never mind that they then went outside to skate in open view.The new cameras at The Times were not, in the end, a Privacy Project experiment.