‘Eyes on the Road’: Thousands of U.S. Cities Merging Cameras With AI to Surveil Americans in Their Cars

by The Conversation

By Jess Reia

For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the U.S.

Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance.

In thousands of towns and cities across the U.S., automatic license plate readers have been installed at major intersections, bridges and highway off-ramps.

These camera-based systems capture the license plate data of passing vehicles, along with images of the vehicle and time stamps. More recently, these systems are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.

As a scholar of technology policy and data governance, I see the expansion of automatic license plate readers as a source of deep concern…

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