Safe Street RebelJul 8, 2023

We love that the media is covering #weekOfCone, but they're mostly avoiding talking about one of the biggest problems: surveillance.

A self-driving car network is a city-wide surveillance network under corporate control (as summarized in the SF police department's own training materials!)

A world where cars are all replaced with surveillance robots is a world where everything you are doing is being watched. Where they watch you go from your home to a protest, or to get gender-affirming care, or to get an abortion. And because they're a private entity, who knows what (if any) restrictions there will be on what they do with that data.

Article (with linked SFPD document): https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras

San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras

“Autonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads,” an internal training document states.

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@SafeStreetRebel It also cannot, cannot be said enough, that legality of actions is, effectively, a myth. Selective enforcement of laws is exactly how we got to a lot of really awful places, and what keeps us here.

Loitering, jaywalking, everyone does remember 'stop and frisk', right? The amount of things you can be arrested for is actually unreal, and giving the police department a database of things they can just 'use' on a whim should give everyone nightmares. It's been weaponized before.

Jul 8, 2023 at 11:17pmWeb