Huntsville-born software engineer mapping license plate readers nationwide: ‘I don’t like being tracked’
www.al.com“While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.”
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Lol in Albuquerque this isn’t a problem because plates are optional 😂
Having a digital license plate connected to some API for this would be legendary, although likely very illegal
Mapping is great, but can we crowd source a parallel camera network that tracks police and politician vehicles on a public site?
Around here all the shady characters just remove their license plates and face exactly zero consequences for it.
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I was at a tech conference recently, and the local city tech department was showing off the cameras all around the city. They were all tracking individual vehicles with computer vision, across town as the traffic moved from one camera to another.
I didn’t get a chance to ask them whether law enforcement used the data, but I’m pretty sure that’s a given.
Did you ask them why they’re blatantly violating the constitution?
Spray can can
Hunh. I guess Huntsville doesn’t get much poetic irony around them thar parts.
Non anti-adblock-wall link (oh, the irony): https://archive.ph/GVLfj
Ironically, base functionality (reading) works fine with JS disabled.
That headline gave me cancer. Ffs
I got a stroke trying to read it.
had to be evacuated to hospital…