This gets us to the central problem of today’s surveillance state. No one running the cameras wants to be observed. One reason that city officials object to releasing Flock data, for example, must that they themselves are among the recorded. The cameras are on them too; they too can be tracked. Everything means everything for these everywhere cameras.
Replace the cameras with dummy cameras, because like you said “It doesn’t happen anymore.”
And who cares. My cameras record do you know who sees 99% of it nobody. It just gets recorded over.