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> I think machines that cause death and destruction and provide easy escape from crime scenes should be monitored while operating in public domains

This ignores the other issues that come with these systems. People concerned with Flock cameras are largely not complaining about catching criminals.

> We should also consider that the privacy concerns being raised against LPRs are also edge cases. Can’t we have the benefits of LPRs as well as systems that prevent and punish abuses of such technology?

These aren’t really edge cases. Abuses of surveillance systems seem ubiquitous and rarely are punished.

The US is a nation where a man was put in jail for over a month for posting an anti Trump meme and it seems literally nothing will happen to the people who did this to him. We seem categorically unable to punish abuse of power for some reason.