Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.

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    I remember years ago an engineer for the ARGUS-IS doing like a PSA warning about all of this. The missing piece then was a systems to sift through mountains of disparate data sources to pull together a single cohesive and relevant data point.

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      Which I’m guessing is why data centers are so hot right now. Surveillance state brought to us by big tech, billionaires, and corporations. They sell this stuff to naive or malicious police and government officials. I’m not too surprised the police are on board but so very many politicians are signing their localities up for it and citizens aren’t happy.

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        We need something like deflock to keep track of who is signing off on all of this so people can organize and vote them out. It’s a very bipartisan issue.