San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.

  • JustinAEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yes, but the EU is setting legal precident here that American legislation should follow.

      • JustinAEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Defeatism only helps the thugs who benefit from chaos.

        • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I think you may be miscalculating the opinion of the American public. “It’s European law” isn’t exactly a selling point for a lot of folks.