"Kevin Welch of EFF-Austin, a digital civil liberties organization, said the LVT contract is fundamentally flawed because it has no enforcement mechanism. “I see data abused and misused by well-intentioned people every day,” Welch said. “The reality is, the only data that is safe is the data that is not collected. There is no bureaucratic means of reforming this. And there is no reason to trust a contract that has no enforcement mechanism.”" https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/the-mass-surveillance-debate-is-back/

The Mass Surveillance Debate Is Back
Austinites shut down two mass surveillance programs last year, worried about how the technology threatens privacy and aids Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants. Advocates from over 30 state and local groups banded together in a coalition called No ALPRs to convince City Council to end the Austin Police Department’s automated license plate reader program in […]