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Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs

52 points · 31 comments · lenerdenator

petcat · 1789674270 · focus · HN ↗
Go even further and just adopt the New Hampshire law which doesn't even allow "non-hit" license plate images or records to be transferred off the camera device itself and must be deleted locally within 3 minutes.
1. wiskinator · 1789674459 · focus · HN ↗
  should also mandate that the license plate data that constitutes a 'hit' must be sent and stored at rest encrypted so that someone can't break into a camera and see who's beeing searched for.
  1. JumpCrisscross · 1789674523 · focus · HN ↗
    > so that someone can't break into a camera and see who's beeing searched for
    You know what, if a camera maker is incompetent enough to do this I'm fine leaving it as a back-end for figuring out what the surveillance state is up to.
  2. daeken · 1789674890 · focus · HN ↗
    Even better, honestly: a large bloom filter for the data, such that the likelihood of a collision is relatively low, then send it up to the server for a check. That way there are a small number of erroneous potential hits, but the list never needs to exist on-device.
2. JumpCrisscross · 1789674473 · focus · HN ↗
  Huh <a href="https://www.recordinglaw.com/us-laws/traffic-camera-tickets/new-hampshire-traffic-camera-tickets/" rel="nofollow">https://www.recordinglaw.com/us-laws/traffic-camera-tickets/...
3. DaSHacka · 1789674932 · focus · HN ↗
  Neat, had no idea this was a law in NH. This is exactly what I've been arguing in favor of for years; the issue with flock is primarily that it treats everyone as a criminal by default, profiling everything you do even when you've done nothing wrong.
  All you'd need after enforcing all cameras be 'hit-based' is also mandating warrants to enact a search, and you've significantly neutered the issue with them in their current state.
4. tclancy · 1789675358 · focus · HN ↗
  Well, I'll be damned, we finally did something smart in our state legislature. This definitely feels like a "The worst person you know made a good point", but that's me assuming Jason Osborne was in favor.

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