De-flocking is taking off in the USA as people start to realise what kind of life AI-enabled Flock cameras are taking us towards.
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.
This is called metadata. About your car. Collected without your consent.
These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant.
Who would want this data apart from law enforcement?
Car insurance companies, companies using real world route-usage to figure out where to place ads, new stores, drive-ins.
But while Flock cameras capture license plates on an industrial scale, at a personal level FNN thinks that AI-enabled glasses are probably worse.
See a cute guy/gal on the street.
Your glasses unobstrusively snap a photo and within a few minutes you can be surveying a naked version of said guy/gal while having a coffee. Bonus!