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Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli built a custom automatic license plate recognition camera programmed to exclusively identify and track police vehicles. Sistilli stated in a video that two officers from the Peel Regional Police visited his Brampton, Ontario home on September 20 to question his intentions regarding the project. [1][2]
According to Sistilli, the officers expressed worry that the tool could reveal where they lived and their daily routines. Sistilli noted the irony that their anxieties reflected the exact privacy concerns citizens face from widespread ALPR surveillance, including systems deployed by Flock Safety. Flock claims its network helps reduce crime, but critics and municipalities have pushed back over privacy risks, alleged officer misuse, and security vulnerabilities. [2]
Anthony Sistilli described Peel Regional Police's visit last month in a YouTube video that he recently posted. His project uses automatic license plate recognition, or ALPR – the technology police use to record passing vehicles and search for them later. But Sistilli designed his camera to pick out police vehicles...
Excerpt · TechSpot
Canadian YouTuber Anthony Sistilli says police questioned him after he built an ALPR camera designed to track police vehicles, leading to an ironic discussion over the privacy risks of mass license-plate surveillance.
Excerpt · Tom’s Hardware