cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45005148

For advocates like Lucy Parsons Labs’ Martinez, however, the ultimate solution to ALPRs is the complete abolition of them, not measures made with the intent to improve the existing system.

“I don’t care if they’re secure or not, I don’t want them in my backyard,” Martinez said. “What we’ve seen with these surveillance technologies is that the harms are so great and that all of the ways people have tried to rein them in are so ineffective. If you care about civil liberties, if you care about human rights, if you care about all of these things, you’re going to end up in a place where the answer is ‘we have to just tear these things up.’”