San jose’s alpr surveillance program is especially pervasive Flock cameras are a type of surveillance camera being sold as automated license plate readers. Few california law enforcement agencies retain alpr data for an entire year, and few have deployed nearly 500 cameras.
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The electronic frontier foundation, aclu, cair and siren have joined forces in an attempt to put a check on surveillance searches in san jose that are utilized by local police and outside agencies.
A group of civil liberties and immigrant support organizations is suing san josé, alleging the city’s widespread use of hundreds of automated license plate readers amounts to a “deeply invasive” mass surveillance system that violates residents’ rights to privacy in california
“mass surveillance through the use of technology like flock cameras present a dangerous threat to every oregonian’s privacy and rights to be free from invasive and unjustified government searches into our personal lives,” kelly simon, the aclu of oregon’s legal director, said in a statement. — today, the aclu of oregon and its legal partners, visible law and leduc montgomery llc, filed to sue the city of eugene for failing to disclose public records pertaining to the city’s operation of flock safety cameras
