City Sued for Using Flock Cameras in ‘Massive’ Surveillance (youtube.com)
172 automatic licence plate-reading cameras across town ‘to conduct prolongued warrentless surveilance of entire driving populations.’ 5000 US towns and cities have this. A company called ‘Flock Safety.’ They use AI to create ‘vehicle finger prints’ which allows 'any Flock subscriber to track where that vehicle has gone and what other vehicle has been seen nearby.' Dragnet. Flock pools its data in a centralized database, and police across the country can access it, a billion monthly data points. No warrant is required to access and use this data in any way, reportedly. Further, police policy requires officers to log in and use this throughout their day. Already has been abused by police stalking their exes and a chief tracking his ex girlfriend's and her new boyfriend's vehicles. They also shared the database with other deparments of government. 'Prolongued tracking of public movements with surveillance serves to invade the reasonable expectation of privacy citizens possess in their entire movements.'
4th Amendment (unreasonable searches and seizures by the government).
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‘I don’t like the government following my every movement and treating me like a criminal suspect when they have no reason to believe I've done anything wrong.'
The idea of public privacy will come. Currently, you just get made fun of and belittled for mentioning this, by 99% of citizens in all countries I've experienced.
Cameras in banks or post offices 'record what's happening in there' in case there is an event. They are not tracking individuals and storing data on them and AI-ing them and creating profiles of information about them. Is this intrusive.
Probalby will require Supreme Court to decide, not circuit courts. When will that be?
‘Even if you can’t support the IJ financially, you can support them morally.' Very true.
There are places where photography is public is banned already.
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