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taormina • today at 5:14 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

No. Any surveillance is going to have a chilling effect on the community. Why hang out at the local park with this monstrosity out of 1984 is watching you? Why not go literally anywhere else?

Which armed robbers were caught with this technology that were uncatchable before now? Seriously. Ruining all of privacy for everyone does not fix this. This is the same old “if you have nothing to hide” again and again and again and it’s been categorically wrong for hundreds of years. Nothing has changed. Expect the means.


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bigDinosaur • today at 6:54 AM

Living in a country (Australia) where ALPRs have been legal and standard for decades I can assure you that people still hang out in local parks. This technology specifically has not led to 1984.