Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
Axon is actually the Taser company that pulled a Facebook-style name rebrand because their earlier name was getting to be unpopular and associated with bad shit. They also do body cams.
Axon is AT LEAST as evil as Flock, if not worse. I’ve seen job openings for building out surveillance software and infra, so they are not even remotely a better alternative.
Not that any alternative to surveillance is acceptable other than dismantling it.
they could probably “plug in” to palantir pretty quickly tho. in fact I’d be surprised if that isn’t already happening en masse even if it’s not an “official partnership”
Axon is actually the Taser company that pulled a Facebook-style name rebrand because their earlier name was getting to be unpopular and associated with bad shit. They also do body cams.
Axon is AT LEAST as evil as Flock, if not worse. I’ve seen job openings for building out surveillance software and infra, so they are not even remotely a better alternative.
Not that any alternative to surveillance is acceptable other than dismantling it.
They don’t have a national database yet, I guess that’s the best we can get :(
they could probably “plug in” to palantir pretty quickly tho. in fact I’d be surprised if that isn’t already happening en masse even if it’s not an “official partnership”
Absolutely
Any camera can, in theory. Ai mass surveilance is a generic property of security cameras