How expanding web of license plate readers could be 'weaponized' against abortion

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/how-expanding-web-of-license-plate-readers-could-be-weaponized-against-abortion

How expanding web of license plate readers could be ‘weaponized’ against abortion
Activists fear Flock, whose tech reads license plates, might endanger women seeking abortions
Johana Bhuiyan
Thu 6 Oct 2022 06.00 EDT

License plate readers, which are usually installed on streetlights, highway overpasses, or police squad cars, capture the details of passing cars and help police keep track of the vehicles that pass through certain locations or neighborhoods.

The information is collected in a database, which police can search to see where certain vehicles have been or what cars have been in a certain area during a specific time frame.

Flock’s website says its products help capture “objective evidence” that is then run through a machine learning-enabled software that allows the company to, for instance, help police identify vehicles that may be traveling with the suspected car. The company says police can also upload their own image of a car and the software “will match it to vehicles recorded by Flock Safety cameras in the past 30 days”.

In addition to contracting directly with hundreds of police departments, Flock says in its privacy policy that it may share data the company stores with any government agency in response to legal requests like subpoenas or warrants.

Flock’s Talon platform, its national law enforcement search network, also allows police departments it works with to share their license plate footage with hundreds of other police departments across the country. Therefore, law enforcement in a state where abortion is legal can share data with police in a state where abortion is banned. For instance, in California, the Vallejo police department, which has detected nearly 400,000 vehicles in the last month, shares its license plate reader data with law enforcement in Texas and Arizona.

[Irish_Dem]

1. All female infants at birth should be implanted with pet locator chips.

That would make it much easier for our male overlords to track us and inflict maximum punishment for failure
to comply with the rules.