Ring camera footage requires law enforcement to get a warrant or for individuals to give consent to supply the footage.
Now tell me which system makes it easier for a cop to stalk their ex.
Then again, these modes of transport are less popular in the US; I guess such a surveillance system is extra effective in the US because of that.
As the cost of compute and wireless communications continues to drop, facial recognition will be prolific. There are more limitations with cameras, but AI will make it easy to backtrack movement to a place where they get a clean shot that can identify you.
As an example, the transit authority in NYC Metro was able to plug existing security feeds from trains into Amazon Rekognition to count heads, which feeds their ticketing app — you can see which carriages are full. As time goes on, they’ll become able to track the breadcrumbs individuals from seat to platform. (If not already)
Detectives do this manually today. I was on a jury where the purse snatcher was followed by various cameras until he got on a bus. They pulled the bus passes and tracked his pass back to his girlfriend.
Please don’t make it seem like it’s a “popularity” thing; it’s a necessity thing.
[1]: https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/publicatio... page 6
[2]: https://metropolitan-council.github.io/TBI_Household_Synthes... “Driving remains the predominant mode of travel in the region, representing 83% of trips in 2023.”
But, in Canada, there are local communities that plow bike infrastructure and locals bike in their deep winter.
It's a chicken or egg problem of building infrastructure for users and users demanding infrastructure. It's not some fact of nature that it's impossible. Different communities have different priorities. So, necessity is a bit strong of a word.
The vast majority of Americans live in cities. Half live in just 8 metro-areas, just as the vast majority of Europeans live in cities. Europe is far more dispersed though.
Some European cities I remember having pervasive cameras in public transport a decade ago, ostensibly to prosecute vandals.
Ring is problematic in some ways but doesn’t produce trivially searchable metadata.
LOVEINT is indeed a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
That was just my reaction reading the OP.
First paragraph: reasonable, if ignoring that access it not likely to be unrestricted willy-nilly.
Second paragraph: not as reasonable given that Amazon likely comply without issue with us intelligence, and sell the data to third parties, which the police could just buy (similar has been done) to avoid consent or legal obstacles.
Third paragraph: out of nowhere, focus on police. No mention of intelligence agency staff or say Amazon staff doing the same thing.
I just had a wee chuckle to myself was all.
With the right access controls and approval processes, that can be fully solved in a week.
What do you think the chances are that we could invent a system like that? You don't think Flock and the police would find a way to circumvent it do you?
