“This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
July 18th, 2023
Via: Forbes:
Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records.
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“You’ve seen the systems totally metastasize to the point that the capabilities of a local police department would really shock most people.”
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“The scale of this kind of surveillance is just incredibly massive,” Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, told Forbes. Pointing to both Rekor and Flock, a rival that runs a similar pan-American surveillance network of license plate readers, he described warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse like this as “quite horrifying.”
