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What if someone did a secret field study of a few caches?


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4 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said:

The problem I see is if you tell people they're being recorded or under surveillance they will alternate their behavior. But not telling them has potential privacy issues. A legal compromise might be to use the recording as a source for an article, but not actually post the footage anywhere.

You can film anyone in the US as long as there isn't a reasonable expectation of privacy. So almost anywhere where you would geocache, but not in say somebodys house. And you can post this anywhere with very few exceptions.  This can be very different in other countries but almost anywhere you're good to do so if you blur their faces (which can also be more respectful). 

 

Setting up the camera, though, would be its own hassle as you would need to get permission, which is likely much harder than just getting permission for a geocache...

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Cameras might work some spots, but the few we knew of in our game lands (the largest landowner...), had most removed or destroyed by hunters and hikers. Any place we think is cool had had someone there too.

Unlike many states, no tax dollars go to our game lands.  They run by hunter's licenses, oil n gas exploration, and harvesting of trees.

Privacy is a biggie for me.  If my niece has to tinkle, and some jack adze is taking photos of her, I'm gonna get ya...

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3 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said:

How would a study measure the effect on people who catch on, and refuse to ever visit another cache by the hider?

 

Hide the cache with a sock puppet account. 

 

56 minutes ago, cerberus1 said:

Cameras might work some spots, but the few we knew of in our game lands (the largest landowner...), had most removed or destroyed by hunters and hikers.

 

Nothing has soured my opinion of hunters anywhere near as much geocaching. Conservationists most of them are not.

 

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On 6/24/2025 at 5:10 PM, Hügh said:

Placement of closed-circuit television (CCTV) or surveillance cameras for the purpose of surveillance or monitoring the cache is not allowed.

 

What if the surveillance camera was there first? :ph34r:

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Posted
2 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said:

 

What if the surveillance camera was there first? :ph34r:

 

I know someone who said that about a post in the ground for a gadget cache :yikes:

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Posted (edited)
On 6/26/2025 at 10:42 AM, GeoElmo6000 said:

 

I know someone who said that about a post in the ground for a gadget cache :yikes:

 

I had to check your profile to see if you were talking about this cache ion my favorites list that's in a camera dome that was probably a license plate reader (waist high) in a college parking lot before it was abandoned and became a really cool TB cache.

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