Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) aren’t just helping police investigate crimes anymore. They’re now being used to flag drivers for supposedly “suspicious” driving patterns.
The longer I live, the more correct I am for never leaving the basement.
Maybe next life yall. Peace.
Anyone have links for actual abuse. Stories, cases, real links that show major corruption and abuse of this tech? Large scale the better. I have contacts in a group law firm looking for cases. Maybe people in those positions can make change. Get into the headlines. Link the best reports you can find below.
Upvote this and let’s get traction.
I remember seeing that documentary called Minority Report.
Suspicious is going to be non Tesla electric car owners…
ctOS from Watch Dogs was supposed to be a warning… It wasn’t supposed to become a real system.
Hopefully its as easily hackable
“Papers, please.”
This is the future Republicans want more of…
The Wired article linked by the OP article mentions visiting multiple banks in a week as suspicious behavior that gets flagged… if we had a car (assuming it needs a license plate to attach to you and look up info), that would have pinged my spouse last week. Stupid fucks live in such ivory towers that they’ve never had a bank run out of quarters for the washing machine.
so three empty ATMs can land me in jail. good to know.
I used to be a manager at a smoothie shop. went to like two banks a day with different business needs, guess that’s not allowed… who knew?
I got so tired of the quarters problem (bank online so I get ATM fees then have to go to a laundromat to pretend I’m doing laundry there) that I bought a whole-ass washing machine for $180 to avoid the problem.
I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.
I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.
Why would your landlord have a problem with a portable washer in your apartment? Is there language written into your lease prohibiting it?
Side benefit of the extreme proliferation of gambling: basically every bar has a shitload of quarters now.
They don’t know what a washing machine is. They likely think it’s to clean golf balls.
Well, that’s not wrong.
I used to visit the bank way more often when living paycheck to paycheck because it was the only way to get ahead of insufficient funds charges. I was depositing cash from whatever I could sell to pay off the $25 per item overdraft fees.
Looking for crimes, not criminals.
Not driving and not having kids are two things you can do to exempt yourself from a world of possible legal issues.
Walking on the side of the street invites its own set of legal issues.
This one always gets me, walking home from the bar drunk (to avoid driving) can get you thrown in prison, or shot. At least in the US.
Honestly a cop would give you less hassle if you drove home drunk.
The odds of anyone getting shot walking down the street are infinitesimal. Your odds of getting flattened by a car however…
There’s a video where a guy is just walking home from his shift and gets wellness checked by a passing trooper into being arrested.
@[email protected] that is particularly suspicious
“Just following AI’s orders.”
I mean I got pulled over for DWB so, meh.
Driving with… Balls?
Probably driving while black
US police was using magic wands to detect drugs at schools and mark lockers that need to be searched. AI is not that strange.
It’s like the magic drug dog that takes cues from the owner.
Not a new problem unfortunately.
Among the things courts or cops have deemed “suspicious”:
Booking a nonstop flight
Booking a flight with a layover
Traveling alone
Traveling with a companion
People who appear nervous
People who appear ?too calm?
No, but now AI can mass-search for those reasons, or combine them, for all of us. You won’t even know you were targeted as a political enemy until you’re in an interrogation room…
Simple throughline, two options: “Bad Vibes” aka being a minority in America or “I need to impress my superior, and the best thing i could do would be whatever sherlock holmes does, but im an idiot so ill just roll the dice on the next guy and hope im right and get promoted :)”
Basically, yeah. Law enforcement supervisors prefer higher arrest volume.
You left off these ones from the list which are pretty funny
Being the first person off a plane
Being the last person off a plane
Someone authorities believe has tried to blend in to the middle of exiting passengers’
So… getting off a plane then.
Being hatless
Being hatted
If they’re going to keep doing ALPR cameras, license plates should be abolished, as they are compelled speech.
