Worst timeline.

This is just tech bros weponizing kids for profit (and not caring who gets hurt by their actions).

https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/

#AI #ICE #ALPR #Schools

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

404 Media
@alice Yet people told me I was "out of line" for ripping techbros new assholes...
@alice My immediate reaction to that headline was, "What the hell is WRONG with this country!?"

@EdCates @alice

Leave our kids alone!

@ScruffyJunco @alice . . . as the great Western philosophers "Pink Floyd" said.
@EdCates Capitalism, and the fear it engenders in the rich that they might lose it all if the poor are allowed to think for themselves.
@alice

@alice This bill was introduced in NH recently. We already have cameras on the busses & the bill was to put another one on the little stop sign that pops out when they stop. I was confused about why they would need two, but I guess this is why. They want to add this crap.

I haven’t checked on it to see if it died but if it passed they were planning to have the data deleted after 3 days like the flock cameras here. They don’t want people doing FOI requests for folks they’re trying to stalk and they think 3 days leaves it accessible to law enforcement if necessary but would prevent accessibility to the public.

Regardless, EW

@maggiejk @alice
Hmm, deliberately setting things up so it's accessible to law enforcement but not to the public via FOI is telling

@alice It is like, "Let us put our cameras on your buses to prevent kids from being run over by speeding cars!"

Absolute BS.

Today buses, tomorrow classrooms.

#Surveillance #Panopticon #ICE #BusPatrol

@alice Why would they want to look at school kids on buses?
Oh, right, pedophiles...

@alice how is this even legal?

Like wasn't COPPA supoosed to prevent that??