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1. JKCalhoun · 1791067032 · focus · HN ↗

   License plate reader?

   So the device should require very specific license plates to scan for—not the current dragnet. The software should only "ping" when there is a confident match with said license plate(s)—and merely log which license plate, time stamp a single photo, and note the confidence level of it being a match.

   The frame buffer should be the only place (a frame of) video is ever stored at all (excepting the high-confidence match indicated above).

   The only issue remaining would be whether we trust the device/software to have complied (and not have a backdoor) and of course there needs to be a legal warrant for every license plate uploaded (and it should expire fairly frequently, likely requiring a new warrant to continue canning for the plate).

   1. kennywinker · 1791070121 · focus · HN ↗

      That is a technical solution to a problem that has a far cheaper, and less easily abused solution: don't put up cameras at all.

      Building a system with "safeguards" in place that require constant oversight is destined for either regulatory capture of the oversight, or slow dismantling of the oversight.

      E.g. warrants -> fisa court warrants -> Xkeyscore

      1. JumpCrisscross · 1791071141 · focus · HN ↗

         > don't put up cameras at all

         There seems to be a real reduction in property crime in some places with cameras. I don’t think it’s realistic to take these down everywhere. (I was in the camp that they should go down everywhere. I’ve relaxed that position recently.)

         1. kennywinker · 1791072803 · focus · HN ↗

            We found that by putting all humans in cages with no ability to contact eachother or interact with the outside world crime fell to almost zero.

            1. warkdarrior · 1791073037 · focus · HN ↗

               Not a bad idea. Just launched a company around that concept, with a full range of cage options. I bet ICE will subcontract to us.

               1. marcosdumay · 1791074877 · focus · HN ↗

                  Does the tower where Gandalf is kept in Lord of the Rings have a name? Is the .com still available?

                  1. kennywinker · 1791075413 · focus · HN ↗

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