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They definitely slowed drivers down in San Francisco: data was released proving it.
Source? My understanding is that speeding cameras and flock cameras are different in the SF application at least.
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We voted out the cameras locally, the feds just installed them at every nook and cranny they had available. Turned out, there was a lot of federal property, so it was back to square one.
Regime change is coming, its harm reduction until then.
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Regime change is coming, its harm reduction until then.
There are a host of issues that the dems are better on (assuming one agrees on what better means), but I don't think they're particularly better on this issue. One can point to pro-privacy outliers on both sides, but we're not likely to get one of them as the final candidate in 2028.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990619 (citations)
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864405 (citations)
I expect Dems to be better on privacy in this context ("We don't need ALPRs because privacy is more important than faux threats conjured up to sell corporate surveillance to the masses for institutional shareholder returns") because you're more likely to be fear driven as a Republican/conservative (and therefore, support invasion of privacy via ALPRs despite facts and statistics around the risk) due to a larger amygdala (where fear processing takes place) [3] and amygdala–BNST connectivity [4], but of course some Dems will disappoint on this policy topic. You might even be able to suss out confidence in policy implementation using photos of candidates [5], which can predict political orientation (and therefore, brain structure).
[3] Kanai R, Feilden T, Firth C ... Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults Current Biology, 2011; 21, 677-680 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017
[4] Pedersen WS, Muftuler LT, Larson CL. Conservatism and the neural circuitry of threat: economic conservatism predicts greater amygdala-BNST connectivity during periods of threat vs safety. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2018 Jan 1;13(1):43-51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx133. PMID: 29126127; PMCID: PMC5793824.
[5] Kosinski, M., Khambatta, P., & Wang, Y. (2024). Facial recognition technology and human raters can predict political orientation from images of expressionless faces even when controlling for demographics and self-presentation. American Psychologist, 79(7), 942–955. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001295
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Since military service is mandatory in Israel, it means that basically any Israeli (with the exception of Hasidic Jews), male or female, is, not by choice, ex-IDF. It isn't a signal of their choices, or willing participation, just of where they were born. If you don't know this, now you do. If you knew this already...
Speed cameras next. They’re just revenue generators and part of a safetyism Trojan horse for surveillance.
- good publicity (drivers know that speed cameras exist)
- density (high chance of passing a speed camera)
- enforcement of penalties (if fines can be ignored then they lose their deterrent effect)
- portable (so you don't know where they are ahead of time)
Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
It doesn't matter how thoughtful you are, someone else will be thoughtless for you.
Nice to see some pushback in the most egregious abuses of privacy. I wonder why we are getting this with Flock but not seeing the same with private security cameras such as Ring, pervasive tracking of mobile devices by carriers and apps, and internet browser tracking. Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it?
Ring is dead near me. Everyone had Ring doorbells until someone went around with a hammer and fucked them all up.
Speed cameras next. They’re just revenue generators and part of a safetyism Trojan horse for surveillance.
Speed cameras save lives. It's best when they're paired with: - good publicity (drivers know that speed cameras exist) - density (high chance of passing a speed camera) - enforcement of penalties (if fines can be ignored then they lose their deterrent effect) - portable (so you don't know where they are ahead of time)