• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    The tracking is also entirely unnecessary. People walk around with GPS enabled phones in their pockets the entire time you don’t need a separate CCTV camera network. At least with GPS enabled phones the only people who can track you with the government, but the cameras have been monitored by a corporation these days people tend to trust the government more than the corps, although it is a close run thing.

    • abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
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      Lol. Do you really think only govts can track you via your phone ? Both the phone OS providers and the telcos can readily do so, and additionally many apps ask for access that allows them to do so if you’re not careful. Refer the jogging app that compromised military security in Afghanistan & the middle east for example.

      That doesn’t make the flock cameras irrelevant though. It takes an additional step because a) you can’t opt out of number plate tracking and b) it’s facial recognition as well as anpr into a central tracking database.