Police Surveillance Technology
Summary
Mountain View's police chief just hit pause on the city's automatic license plate readers because outside agencies were secretly snooping on our data. It's a huge win for privacy advocates who've been sounding the alarm about how local surveillance tech gets handled.
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While pausing the cameras doesn't cost extra, taxpayers could see shifts in spending if the city has to overhaul its data-sharing software or hire privacy consultants.
Local residents and privacy advocates get a major win, as their daily commutes and travels are no longer being shared with outside agencies without strict oversight.
Outside law enforcement agencies that relied on Mountain View's cameras to track vehicles across jurisdictions are temporarily out of the loop.
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