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.

    • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      Kinda sounds like education isn’t actually an option then, doesn’t it? It’s nice you have a fantasy of a perfect world, but it doesn’t exist, so your actual real world choices are to either lose the murder machines or smile for the camera.