Comment by user00005

And they're objectively ugly as fuck. I am fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood with a two mile tree-lined path, and these are the only inorganic "scenery" besides the path and adjacent road. It's ruined my daily walks.

I am lucky to be in a city which has not rolled any of this out, but it's surrounded by cities which have gone whole-hog on rollout. I use DeFlock app to see camera locations (but do not route or give it GPS because it has Network permission), then manually create a route in OSMAnd~ (no Network permission) to avoid the cameras. OSMAnd really really needs to roll out an addon for ALPRs just like it has for speed cameras, like yesterday!

That isn't enough.

It doesn't deal with the lingering threat that remains of the people who would be willing to do this kind of stuff for money.

The problem is ultimately that there are people motivated to spy on their neighbours and bring about a totalitarian surveillance nightmare in exchange for money.

You're just playing whack-a-mole as long as these people can still operate in society. They'll be back, and more insidious and more determined to destroy society.

What's the solution to that?

> They can track my movements with no probable cause and no warrants

My understanding is that IF they are tracking your historical movements over time from multiple different cameras, that constitutes a "search" and the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant in that case.

There have been slightly different variations to this in the courts lately, such as google location history and geofence warrants, but unless you know of a legal precedent (besides "they're getting away with it right now") that says historical movements don't need a search, I'm inclined to believe that they do.

Whether or not that is currently being successfully tested in court is another story.