By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic of the Mass Privatel Blog First of all, let’s define a surveillance state, which will ultimately help us understand how a surveillance state affects motorists’ privacy. A 2013 Privacy International Blog took on that task with a look towards the United Kingdom. The UK data protection […]
34 Blog Posts From the Facial Recognition Tag
How a Surveillance State Affects Motorists’ Privacy?
November 18, 2020
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ACLU, ALPR, Automated Traffic Cameras, DMV, DRONES, E-ZPass, Facial Recognition, NMA, Parking, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Street Lights, Technology, Toll Roads, TOLLING, Traffic Tickets
Is Amazon the World’s Largest Private Surveillance Company?
October 14, 2020
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DRONES, Facial Recognition, IoT, license plate readers, LICENSE PLATES, PRIVACY, Technology, TRAFFIC STOP
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog In late September, many news articles came out about Amazon’s new surveillance direction. Joe even wrote a post on the MassPrivatel blog entitled: Amazon Drone Deliveries: The Greatest Threat to Privacy Americans Have Ever Seen. Credit: William Warby Shelia: Joe, can you explain what […]
Police Drones Take Off—What is the Impact for Motorists?
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September 21, 2020
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ACLU, Automated Traffic Enforcement, DRONES, Facial Recognition, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Technology, TRAFFIC STOP
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #485. If you would like to receive the NMA E-Newsletter on a weekly basis, join the National Motorists Association today! Traffic stops are often one of the most dangerous situations for law enforcement (not to mention for motorists as many recent events have proven). The unknown […]
Are Delivery Drones One of the Greatest Threats to Privacy Americans have Ever Seen?
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September 16, 2020
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DRONES, Facial Recognition, license plate readers, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Technology
Pretty soon, our skies everywhere could very well be filled with drones from all the major delivery and online companies: USPS, UPS, FedEx, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, and Walmart. Package air delivery may happen so quickly we will not know what hit us. Many of us may even like the convenience of getting medicine delivered in […]
A Bait and Switch on the Use of Smart Streetlights in San Diego
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August 18, 2020
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Bicycle, Facial Recognition, LICENSE PLATES, PEDESTRIAN, PRIVACY, SAFETY, street furniture, Street Lights, Technology
Street furniture, such as the lowly streetlight, has recently seen an upgrade to a higher status. No longer just an illumination device, streetlights have now been drafted to gather street data and even police surveillance. Since 2018, San Diego police have used streetlight footage nearly 400 times to help in criminal investigations such as sexual […]
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