Set up your own cameras and publish publicly the movements of politicians that claim this is for safety. Nothing illegal about pointing a camera at the entrance to city hall and logging entries and exits of politicians to a website. Hell, afaict, nothing illegal about pointing a camera at their house and doing the same.
Something in the spirit of celebrity jet trackers, but at a local level.
The hardware/software isn't particularly difficult. Some loudmouth like Rossman could get this moving.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear right?
Anyone can publish a livestream of anything visible from public by the naked eye. Why would using machine vision on that livestream to highlight public officials change anything.
It’s literally the same laws that let flock operate, and exactly what they and other ALPR companies are already doing silently.
I think it has to do with the increasingly toothless nature of the average civilian - I personally could never seriously physically riot unless in extreme danger
I find it suspicious that this story doesn't show up in HN's search function. But that's just me.
Oh, wait: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
Most of the camera's on my property are hidden but that is to get license plates of porch pirates.
There's a very small number of people committing crimes worthy of these cameras, and there's also a small number of people not willing to do business with clients of camera purveyors.
