“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That’s what the technology is – it’s actually not that complicated, it’s pretty simple.”
100% lying: https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-says-its-alprs-dont-do-video-after-repeatedly-announcing-they-can/
LAPD suspending their contract gives me hope that this movement is strong enough.
Protesting, showing up to city council, and generally making officials’ lives uncomfortable is the bare minimum, because it works.
I don’t care if the technology is simple and I don’t care if it only records license plates, it is inherently wrong.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the concept of ANPRs (automatic number plate recognition) as these are called in the rest of the world. It’s more of an issue that there is a complete lack of laws surrounding how that data is to be used, and especially when it’s controlled by a private company. If there were strict laws limiting the situations where ANPRs could be used, such as requiring a warrant to begin searching for plate numbers and automatically discarding data from non-matching plates, I doubt people would complain as much about these.
If it’s a tech product, they’re lying about it’s use. Everything is a façade on top of a darker and more sinister reason. Go Luddites!
