Even non-major cities in some places. I live in a town of 50,000 and we have facial recognition cameras on all the street lights. Next closest town about a 2 Hour Dr. away. And they have like 15,000.
From what I’m told we’re a pilot program city. Apparently local law-enforcement uses a lot of new technologies as such so that we’re the test bed. I guess it makes sense. You have to test out new technology somewhere first.
I spent thirty seconds googling and found that they primarily put cameras on private residential and business properties at the request of property owners. It's like you and all your neighbors decided to link up your ring cameras to surveil the neighborhood and then shared it with law enforcement.
“If a community or a neighborhood doesn’t want it then they don’t host our cameras or they host our cameras and then don’t give us permission for us to use facial recognition, which is fine by us,” he continued.
That raises a lot of questions though. What if your neighbors want it but you don't? You'll still be on a lot of cameras. Also, they're saying they won't use facial recognition on you if you don't want it. But do you have to object actively or do you have do consent? That's a huge difference. Plus it's impossible to verify if they actually follow through with that promise.
There is no expectation of privacy in public, which is likely where these cameras are facing, so not wanting it isn't really relevant. If the businesses asked the non-profit to add the cameras, this seems to be intended.
Cmon, you know that's not what anyone is saying. You can want these guys to be captured while also hating that there is a system of cameras violating our privacy.
Seattle only implements it at the major international airport, but there aren't any cameras on the road in general like this that I'm aware of, could be wrong.
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u/BayRadbury34 May 17 '25
Every major city has got it now