https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/10/23/0425229/aggressive-us-marketers-are-bringing-police-surveillance-tools-to-the-masses

We’re entered an epoch where recorded images are more important that human rights, survival, the environment… and our own lives.

As the purposes and technologies that record images propagate catastrophically, the results are unimaginable stores of data. This is but a tiny example of a process that has become ‘rampant’ in the sense that, if merely allowed to continue, it will not merely raise a challenge to organismal life on Earth and humanity… it will obliterate them.

“Flock Safety, the industry leader, says its systems have been installed in 1,400 cities across 40 states and now capture data from more than a billion cars and trucks every month.

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Its solar-powered, motion-sensing camera can snap a dozen photos of a single plate in less than a second — even in the dark, in the rain, of a car driving 100 mph up to 75 feet away, as Flock’s marketing materials say. “