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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 01:38:32 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Government and companies make it sound like automated license plate readers are “only looking for lawbreakers” when in fact the tech “collects everyone's data and stores that data often for immense periods of time,” EFF’s @maassive told @WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-readers-political-signs-bumper-stickers/

   • ctrlsaltdelete (ctrlsaltdelete@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 01:59:46 JST ctrlsaltdelete

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     @eff @maassive @WIRED

     >Weist says the system, at the very least, should be able to filter out images that do not contain license plate data and not make mistakes. “Any number of times is too many times, especially when it's finding stuff like what people are wearing or lawn signs,” Weist says.

     Once again, the constant contradiction with AI/ML is that both the pro AND anti sides seem to think that it can make human-like judgments with machine-like precision, when those are mutually exclusive

   • MaybeMyMonkeys (maybemymonkeys@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 02:22:35 JST MaybeMyMonkeys

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     @eff @maassive @WIRED they keep everything because they never know (but hope) when it will be useful

   • Teop Versant (teop_versant@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 08:07:29 JST Teop Versant

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     @eff @maassive @WIRED Every city and state wants to know who is home and away. Any alibi's are instantly verified, unless someone else is driving your vehicle..... about 10 years since.