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).

  • lowdownfool
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    51 year ago

    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.

    • @MajorHavoc
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      11 year ago

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

      • @WHYAREWEALLCAPS
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        21 year ago

        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.

    • @kalpolOP
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      21 year ago

      Got any good how-tos for this? My old beater barely has a computer, but who knows what the future holds.

    • @[email protected]M
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      41 year ago

      Fuck Williamson County. Can someone explain how/why they built that overpass at the intersection of Williams Drive and Ronald Reagan? I am guessing some bigwig decided he was tired of stopping at a 4 way stop. Now there are two stop signs on Williams. Those shouldn’t even be there now. The people coming off of RR should be responsible for merging.