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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by cronix on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:40AM (#32251835)
Now if only you could get your neighbors to quit too. The ones that have it are all still recording you. You really only need one or two per block to monitor everyone on the street. ML should easily be able to work out "Silver Corolla with license plate ABC123 left 1200 Sunnyside St at 4:32pm and headed East." Then another one 3 blocks away can report the same car turning North on 127th, and then another can report...
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by JoshGlazebrook on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:57AM (#32252081)
That would assume that nest and ring cameras are even capable of making out license plates. They're all crappy sensors with horrible night vision.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by MichaelCollins on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:23PM (#32252495)
So you're saying it will only be a few more years then? Look at where cellphone cameras were 20 years ago, and where they are today. The present inadequacy of hardware doesn't give me any comfort.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by sparkbII on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:08PM (#32253144)
Why would you stop at the first model once you are already in the ecosystem? People upgrade their devices all the time.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by lotsofpulp on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:11PM (#32252322)
This is much easier (and already accomplished) by the government installing license plate readers.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by TuringNYC on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:25PM (#32252532)
It is even easier by the government using EZPass and electronic toll readers. No optics or OCR required.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by bushbaba on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:30PM (#32252599)
I'm kind of amazed the government doesn't embed a RAIN RFID sticker in renewal tags. They can be read ~30ft away and cost just a few cents per.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by kloch on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:13PM (#32254258)
Oh that's definitely on their mind:

https://stevenmcollins.com/auto-license-plaste-to-have-rfidt...

https://www.nbc12.com/story/20500107/virginia-lawmakers-want...

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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by jollyllama on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:06PM (#32254137)
Which is why I will never have one.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by kube-system on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:30PM (#32252600)
license plates have a bit more adoption, though.
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by TuringNYC on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:15PM (#32283979)
Here in the north east metro areas, the toll plazas are everywhere and cash lanes are scant and backed-up. It is almost impossible to be without an electronic tag. Between my home in Princeton NJ and my office in Manhattan, there are probably 3 or 4 toll collections in each direction, depending on the route.

NYC was trying to do congestion pricing, in which case it would be pervasive.

It is still possible to avoid, but difficult.

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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by Karunamon on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:15PM (#32252378)
Who needs the hassle and appropriations process when you can just send a friendly email to the country's biggest data broker and they'll give you whatever you want?
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by eitally on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:25PM (#32252540)
To be fair, though, there's a flip side. My neighbors seem to get more utility from my driveway feed than I do. Every couple of months, I get a text from a neighbor asking if I got footage of some such thing. Everybody knows who has cameras, and those people are invaluable whenever something nefarious happens (mail theft, break in, kids running amok, etc).
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by stilldavid on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:07PM (#32252247)
Or live in a metro area with WAMI already in place...
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Re:Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant by hammock on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:53AM (#32252023)
Don't live so close to your neighbors? Easier said than done, but on the long scale...
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