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Great, deploy cameras there, and have them monitored by the local police for violent crime. Don’t: - use the cameras to capture license plates, vehicle type/c
by threecheese 5mo ago
Great, deploy cameras there, and have them monitored by the local police for violent crime.
Don’t:
- use the cameras to capture license plates, vehicle type/color/trim/stickers/personalization, and individual persons with clear biometric markers like faces, gait etc
- use that data to populate a commercial database of citizen movements spanning the nation, which can be used to trivially match to an identity (if that annotation isn’t present already)
- permit wide access to that commercial database to surveillance companies, guided by a terms of service authored by your company rather than by legislative bodies
- use that database to train a “pre-crime” artificial intelligence model which will be monetized
- implement an access system for law enforcement which facilitates warrantless access of citizen movements
All of the above are in place or are stated goals of flock et al.
Is this controversial?
- wartywhoa23 5mo agoAlso - make sure that cameras work in all cases regardless of the social status / net worth / closeness of ties to the Prince Of This World, etc, of those who committed a crime caught on camera, or those of the victim of said crime. I don't know about US, but in Russia it's a common trope when a judge's son / kingpin's daughter, etc, run someone over on a crosswalk and all the cameras in vicinity suddenly glitch out and die, or vice versa - cameras thought to have never worked appear working alright when a high profile scumbag is assaulted.
- DevKoala 5mo agoThese are great points and I was truly unaware of these concerns.