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License plate readers are hardly mass surveillance. Why is no one in democratic countries complaining about mass surveillance? And I mean real cameras (not li
by toephu2 8mo ago
License plate readers are hardly mass surveillance.
Why is no one in democratic countries complaining about mass surveillance?
And I mean real cameras (not license plate readers) recording 24/7?
I'm talking about UK, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc.
- doomslayer999 8mo agoBecause we in america tend to value individual liberties in a way that others don't. And yes of course LPR is mass surveillance. Cars should not even have to be registered.
- toephu2 8mo agoThey shouldn't even have license plates?? That leads to 0 accountibility. Would you like the government driving around in government vehicles doing hit and runs and having zero accountability? Or criminals for that matter?
- doomslayer999 8mo agoWe don't need it. You could say the same about any criminal act, doesn't mean we need to tag everyone with a face id.
- insane_dreamer 8mo agounlike most Asian countries, individual freedom is the foundation on which American society has been built; it's why many people migrated to the US over the past 250 years LPRs are absolutely mass surveillance when used without proper legal restraints the legal restraints are the big difference between regular police, who operate without very specific boundaries to protect individual rights -- and ICE, who can do whatever they want with impunity. That's what separates "police" from "Gestapo".