My Neighborhood Contracted A Security Company That Sells The Recordings.
A private security company recently installed cameras throughout my neighborhood. The measure is presented as ordinary urban security, but the scale of it feels increasingly difficult to ignore.
My street has about three blocks yet there's four camera "setups" per block. I live in a super upscale neighborhood in a massive metropolis so it's understandable they'd rid it with cameras; mugging was becoming quite a problem.
Problem is the company they picked, this security startup, sells the recordings among other data to the highest bidder. No joke. That's their business model.
Apparently their "setups" come with license plate recognition, facial recognition, machine learning and connection to government databases.
From a security standpoint, this is pretty good, although mostly reactive and not preventive (I don't think most of the people willing to commit these crimes would care much about a set of cameras anyways). But this just has killed privacy, now some guy in an office (and whomever is buying the data) knows my daily habits, the times I'm home and am not, times I leave for work, ROUTES I take to work among a bunch of other bullshit. Just awful.
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