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Automatic License Plate Reader Report Raises Concerns About Expansion of Government Surveillance in Iowa
Follow up to Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone, How Cops Are Using Flock Safety’s ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists and DeFlock – Automated License Plate Readers
See Also: “The University of Iowa’s Technology Law Clinic and the ACLU of Iowa today released a reportthat surveyed 48 Iowa communities and their use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), a growing form of government surveillance that is raising concerns with privacy, civil rights, and good governance advocates.
The report is a focused look at the growing use of ALPRs by selected law enforcement agencies across Iowa and demonstrates that ALPRs are a surveillance tool that poses serious risks to Iowan’s privacy and civil liberties. ALPRs are not speed cameras. They are not “red light” cameras.
Instead, they are cameras used along roadways throughout Iowa that take thousands of snapshots of all the license plates of the vehicles that drive by. That information can then be fed into a network of nationally shared databases that has too few privacy protections and is subject to abuse.
- More details about ALPRs generally can be found on the ACLU of Iowa web site.
- See also Protect Our Privacy Toolkit PDF
“Unlike other traffic cameras, ALPRs aren’t activated because you violated a law. They record you and every other person who drives by, simply to build a database of vehicle information. They can take hundreds of photos in a matter of minutes.
And unlike ordinary surveillance cameras, where data is either not shared or shared in a more limited manner, the main purpose of ALPRs is to feed this information into a database,” said Megan Graham, director of the Technology Law Clinic at the University of Iowa College of Law and the professor who supervised the project…”
How to Build A Bot in Twelve Steps
“Bots” powered by artificial intelligence systems are enormously powerful and versatile.
Trained bots can take on a wide variety of roles, speaking and acting as lawyers, clients, mediators and advisors, providing unique assistance to teachers and other professionals as they do. This short paper describes how to build a bot in twelve simple steps in the ChatGPT Plus system in a template provided in Chat.
The process is conducted in lay English, without coding or any specialized knowledge of AI. The paper also includes as examples the actual instructions guiding the “Dispute” and “Contract” bots on sites.suffolk.edu/ai-negotiation/