All well and good when fighting crime maybe, but there aren’t restrictions on selling that data to other entities. Where your cars go, when, and how fast, although newer cars report all that back anyway (see the Toyota breach recently).

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    There are 25 of them in a pilot program, they would need budget approval from comissioners when the pilot ends. The sheriff said the cams “capture rear license plates and not faces or profiles” and they already have different “data collectors mounted on telephone poles to track speeds and car counts, but they do not collect images.” Also “Flock camera data is stored for 30 days”.

    Hopefully it isn’t approved for the budget.

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      Interesting. I notice that answer doesn’t address whether they’re selling each person’s full name and driving speed to insurance companies.

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        It isn’t a question of if, but when. I have little doubt smart vehicles and EVs will be doing that in the near future.