There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs — “cameras on wheels.” The rest of us might as well call them what they look like: scarecrows for the…
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When Police Facial Recognition Shows Up Uninvited — Everyone Pretends They Are Surprised
I was reading that AP piece about Edmonton — the one where police facial recognition shows up like an uninvited cousin who somehow already has a key — and I had to laugh. Not a big laugh. More of a tired exhale you get when the pattern is so obvious…