The hidden surveillance network sending Californians' license plates to Border Patrol

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• snowcrete@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Would be a shame if a big truck accidentally ran over them.

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• LostSoul8765@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,” says the government… As they hide cameras in trailers and construction barrels.

  This appears to be illegal, and if laws still mattered in the United States, maybe somebody would get in trouble for it.

  This seems like a golden opportunity for a lot of groups to rally behind James Cordero, though:

  • Pro-life people have got to support a group called No More Deaths.
  • Christians believe strongly that Christians should give food and water to the hungry and thirsty.
  • Gavin Newsom seems like a cool guy, based on what I know about him (which is his Twitter presence and nothing more).

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  • Just_Lyin@lemmy.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    His office’s Twitter presence is the coolest thing about him. Beyond that it’s all the normal corporate greed and trans-hate you expect from establishment democrats.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide” should be quoted back to them as we ask for their address.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The real problem with this sort of thing is that there’s no legal way to avoid it. If you’re operating a motor vehicle on public roads, you need to have a plate visible. You can’t obscure it.

  The laws requiring that visibility were made in an era where it wasn’t possible for someone like Flock to enable anyone who can aim a camera at a road to mass-log and aggregate and data-mine the movement it provides.

  The only real technical solution would be to back out the laws requiring license plates to be visible (and it wouldn’t be perfect, since Flock will still look for identifying oddities on a vehicle and try to log that too, like collision damage). But if you do that, then you lose an important tool for dealing with motor vehicle theft and finding vehicles involved in crimes.

  And there aren’t restrictions on selling or doing whatever companies want with the data. Or with data that they get from facial recognition/gait data in the future, or that sort of thing.

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  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Just to give you an example on how Europe is doing that: Licence plates are personal data. If you want to use them, you need the consent of users. Which you can’t get from drivers on a public street.

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