“License plate readers are not documenting crime — they are documenting the perfectly legal activity that is driving your car on a public road,” EFF’s Dave Maass told The News & Observer. “It’s capturing more information on innocent people in that neighborhood.” https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article286920890.html
@eff they sure document my speeding well!
@eff doesn't this fall into this category?
Probably on people that can not afford a car that will leak their location information.
This is why stolen license plates are a problem.
@eff ATMs now often have cameras on them - should they be removed?
@eff How would you track a stolen car?
@JohnLoader6 @eff I'd rather pay a slightly higher insurance premium to support my neighbors who have their cars stolen than support a panopticon; If we're only going to look at a post-incident response pattern.
If we want to look at pre-incident response patterns. I'd demand that car manufacturers, like Kia, fix their known/well documented flaws that allow people to steal cars easily using a USB plug.
Additional pre-incident response patterns would be to assess and address socio-economic issues that lead to car theft to begin with - ensuring that people are house, fed, and happy, is likely to have a pretty significant impact on property theft in general.
Even crazier, since you're asking, is I'd rather fewer people have cars to begin with by having more walkable neighborhoods & city design. Again, something that would require funding - say, in part, the funding that is currently going to build mass surveillance or other militarization of social services (e.g. policing).