[hedora]

I feel I should point out that California has been installing license plate readers and using them for bulk surveillance databases for a long time.

A bit over a decade ago, I counted two to four such mandatory checkpoints on my commute depending on the route I took. So, somewhere in a government database, they have a log of when I went to and returned from work that year.

I’ve heard such databases go back decades and are widely used to blackmail politicians in the DC area. (Source, a rando that had had a few drinks claimed to work for the state dept. Even if they were full of it, the capability exists.)

[fragmede]

Use of the database is not theoretical, though this was in New York rather than California.

https://gizmodo.com/rekor-ai-system-analyzes-driving-pattern...