New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat [automated license plate readers]

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• Antergo@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the very first assertion the article makes is that this creates a giant database of sensitive information (presumably the license plates).

  That’s just straight up not true? How can you write an article about this and make such a basic wrong assertion.

  Any reasonable system would work as such: Scan plate -> is it allowed to be here? -> if noy store violation, if yes don’t send data

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bold of you to assume it’s a reasonable system.

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The locations of the license plates. Yes, people’s location history is sensitive, and can be used for a lot of harm.

    As for storing the information, that’s where all the benefit comes from. To be useful, they have to be able to query the database for, eg., kidnapper’s car and track where they’ve been. Without that you don’t even have a debate of risk vs reward. It’s not downside outweighing upside. It’s all downside.

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