Fire safety is important!
It's where you see a person and know that they're fluent in the art of setting items around them ablaze, like an arsonist - but only in order to communicate via smoke signals. But they have enough self control to not do it recklessly.
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Shortly - it doesn't serve any purpose. It's a police database. The existence of such a collection of private information is a guarantee that while it may not happen today or tomorrow - eventually, it will be abused with impunity to deal out unjust action. All the reason to consider biking places.
Even moreso - the EFF did an analysis in 2015 of ALPRs - and surprise, surprise: no reduction in crime. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... So, where's the benefit? What purpose does it serve?
Police cars mounted with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) wind their way through the streets of Oakland like a “Snake” game on an old cell phone. Instead of eating up pixels of food, these came...
Kian Bradley reported on The Urbanist last year about this same issue: www.theurbanist.org/2023/11/09/m... Notably - when Flock Saftey was asked about the efficacy of their system, they could point to the ability to recover stolen cars... but no data that would suggest an overall reduction in crime
# Critics have raised concerns about a lack of privacy, data security, or demonstrated effectiveness in reducing crime. Mercer Island has a new initiative under consideration: Whether to implement a n...
This data is rife for abuse. If someone official or a precinct doesn't like you, they have this data at their fingertips. But it's also often available via request - if you provide a range of dates or times, there's so much that gets forked over without question. It's a stalker's dream.
The proliferation of automated License Plate Readers without regulations on how the data is stored/accessed/used is literally how you end up with surveillance states - if someone takes issue with you, they have your 1) car make/model 2) travel history/habits 3) beliefs (via political lawn sign) 🧵
Government and companies make it sound like automated license plate readers are “only looking for lawbreakers” when in fact the tech “collects everyone's data and stores that data often for immense periods of time,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told WIRED.
From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
