A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

  • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    it uploads data

    … So. To the internet?

    simple to do on device

    Image recognition is not computationally cheap. There are more and less expensive ways to do it, but the absolute floor of it turns your phone into a hot plate. So whatever’s in there would need to be at least a phone chip.

    someone needs to check

    So it is kept and stored.

    pre all-this-shit

    Red light/speed cams, triggered on motion sensor boolean when light red or radar speed reading>x.

    You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, which is fine, but why are you speaking confidently and assuming such good will about proven constant brazen liars saying they’re not doing the shit they literally always do?

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about

      Lmao.

      You can literally detect phones with a raspberryPi the idea that you need to upload it to a server is ridiculous.