all that isn't to say discovering and understanding mechanistic causality isn't a useful endeavour; it may be actually a faster, better way but no way to prove it.
The scale is the issue, for me. Having several small-time, disjointed ooerations doing ocr doesn't threaten the general population as much as having eyes everywhere taking notes of who is where at any given time.
The power the flock infrastructure has to target people is unprecedented in the US. And the kind of power I would never want anyone to wield.
Why do you think it is now an issue? Flock is a private company where other traffic cameras I'm familiar with were not. Those were problematic and in my state they were deemed not legal and removed. The other type of cameras I'm not a fan of are the ones for the toll roads. They take shots of license plates even if you have a tag. I don't know if they are searchable by law enforcement, but I have no reason to think they are not.
Any camera system that can be used to track people even if that's not the sole purpose is problematic, but when the entire purpose of the camera is tracking people then it is especially egregious. It's not a problem now, but they've turned the knob to an 11.
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