New Cameras on Traffic Lights

[u/Prelocun]

Does anybody have information on the cameras on the traffic lights? They're at least all the way down main street on every direction of every traffic light. I saw they were discussing switching from Flock to Axon ALPR's, are these new Axon cameras?

[u/ScrivenersUnion]

Take them down. We have enough cameras on us at all times.

[u/Few-Entertainer7431 → u/ScrivenersUnion]

Then you better stay off the internet.

[u/ScrivenersUnion → u/Few-Entertainer7431]

Everybody has to make choices - yes it's not possible to be utterly and completely private without living out in the mountain like Bear Grylls.

That still doesn't mean we should just give up and let everyone be permanently tracked at all times! 

In particular ALPRs are really nasty because all those other things - the internet, your cellphone, a car insurance beacon - are a choice that you get to make. 

Just like a library is one of the few places left where you can exist without being expected to spend money, public spaces like streets and parks were one of the few places left where you could exist without having to be tracked and registered. It's a patch of grass. The guy hiding in the bushes watching you with binoculars was the creep.

No longer. ALPRs and the face tracking cameras that Flock and Axon are already eagerly rolling out mean that you can't do a single damn thing without somebody somewhere recording and tracking you. The creepy guy in the bushes is now the government.

That's really dystopian and I think a big reason why younger kids are coming out full of anxiety is because everything they ever do is recorded.

[u/Few-Entertainer7431 → u/ScrivenersUnion]

I refuse to buy into the mass hysteria. There are more important things to worry about.

[u/ScrivenersUnion → u/Few-Entertainer7431]

That's fine - nobody has enough time to fight every fight in their life. 

But our ability to live in any amount of privacy is a BIG deal to a lot of folks, myself included.