With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse has allowed police to treat a mass surveillance network like their own personal search engine, permitting the tracking of the movements of everyday citizens for low-level complaints, personal whims, and sometimes, seemingly, for the lols.
Private companies aren’t restricted by the Constitution, so they’re not on the hook. Police are just using a private service, so the department isn’t on the hook either
So really, it’s no one’s responsibility to make sure this isn’t abused. That’s what we have to fix
Thats by design. We know about accountability. We know how to implement it into software. Thus was designed this way on purpose. Dont count on it being fixed by itself. We will have to force them.
It’s because of dilution of responsibility.
Private companies aren’t restricted by the Constitution, so they’re not on the hook. Police are just using a private service, so the department isn’t on the hook either
So really, it’s no one’s responsibility to make sure this isn’t abused. That’s what we have to fix
Thats by design. We know about accountability. We know how to implement it into software. Thus was designed this way on purpose. Dont count on it being fixed by itself. We will have to force them.