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San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
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#13Did the citizens request it?
Request what? The surveillance system? No. That said many on HN where strong proponents of it when it was announced because it was marketed as providing data the city government could use to make improvements.
Mass surveillance was strongly supported? Not what i would expect
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Request what? The surveillance system? No. That said many on HN where strong proponents of it when it was announced because it was marketed as providing data the city government could use to make improvements.
Improvements to what? Serious question.
Traffic congestion by studying the build-up of traffic at certain lights
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#15How does anyone who lives in San Diego get to see the live camera and data feeds? Surely a city in the US didn't create a public surveillance network that takes the information and makes it private.
It sure seems like it.
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/feb/20/san-diegos-s...
"...when a request under provisions of state public records law was sent to the city on January 3 to obtain data generated by a single so-called smart streetlight installed on a Market Street light pole, the response was repeatedly delayed.
“The City has to conduct a search for records, examine records, consult with another agency, or compile data in order to determine whether it has disclosable records,” said a January 11 message.
“Pursuant to Cal. Government Code section 6253(c), the City needs to consult with multiple departments having substantial interest in the determination of the request or among two or more components of the department having substantial subject matter interest; such consultation shall be conducted with all practical speed. Therefore, the City is taking a 14-day extension in which to conduct this consultation. We will notify you on or before January 25 whether the City has disclosable records."
Come January 25, the city said it still wasn’t prepared to turn over the records.”
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#16I live in San Diego and frankly, I hate the new lights because they simply aren't as bright and there are fewer of them. I can't run outside after work during the winter because the streets are dark now.
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#17Big Light is watching you!
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#18I live in San Diego and frankly, I hate the new lights because they simply aren't as bright and there are fewer of them. I can't run outside after work during the winter because the streets are dark now.
With modern LED the small battery powered headlamp I have on a headband is like a headlight of the cars of the past :)
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#19I find it frightening that local governments in the U.S. are installing microphones to spy on their citizens in public.
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#20I live in San Diego and frankly, I hate the new lights because they simply aren't as bright and there are fewer of them. I can't run outside after work during the winter because the streets are dark now.
Cameras consumes too much energy :)