In stopped clock is right twice a day news, Florida is moving to ban Flocks from state highways.
Aside from Florida, there is a bunch of momentum all around the US now. Some cities just moved to another ALPR vendor like Axon. That sucks ofc. But many have eliminated ALPR entirely too, after citizens spoke out! Some cities had a constant stream of ppl speaking at city council meetings about it, months on end, dozens of ppl in every meeting.
It’s harder to deal with Flocks on private property. Like Home Depot and Lowes. A city gov terminating its own contract, doesn’t stop Home Depot. I dream of a coordinated, nation-wide boycott of co’s that put private Flocks in their lots. And letting them know exactly why.
Let’s keep the anti ALPR momentum going. It’s starting to see results. And don’t fall into the illogic of thinking it’s not perfect, therefore it’s useless.
I’m aware of the lawsuit suggesting home Depot is using self checkout cameras to scan and log biometric data. I am waiting for that to play out in court however.
If true, then yes, throw the book at them. It is likely video is sent to remote processing hardware that does violate the law.
However, I’ll point out that is an assumption as the plaintiff nearly saw a rectangle around his head which doesn’t necessarily indicate anything beyond object identification; basic technology built into cameras for decades now.
In this case Home Depot themselves somewhat implied legitimacy to the complaint in their defense of it. Smooth move guys.
I don’t know of any lawsuit but just assume any store with the resources to do such a thing is doing it.
Also there’s no reason they shouldn’t be allowed to do that. It’s their store. As long as they aren’t giving free access to LEO or feds or whomever they can do it all they want.
There are notification requirements if they use the technology in store. The tech it’s self is allowed.