The police's terrifying new cameras
I didn’t care too much about being surveilled. One company changed my mind.
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There’s a kind of surveillance camera I can’t stop thinking about. Across the United States, they watch over city street corners, store parking lots, and suburban neighborhoods. They register every single license plate that passes by, compiling that data into a massive searchable police database. And — in just a few years — they’ve spread all over the country largely thanks to a single tech startup called Flock Safety. Over the past month, I’ve been down a rabbit hole trying to understand how these automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, spread so quickly across the country — and what they mean for our right to privacy.
Special thanks to:
- Will Freeman, Creator of DeFlock: https://deflock.me/
- Seth Hall, Co-Founder of San Diego Privacy
- Dave Maass, Director of Investigations for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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