SURVEILLANCE IN AMERICA IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE - What is being done about it? [View all]

"A defense contractor is selling technology that enables license plate reading cameras to also sense driver and passenger phones, laptops, and even pet microchips as you drive past. Police and others can buy it as of last week."

"Leonardo S.p.A. is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The product it is selling to American law enforcement would almost certainly be illegal to deploy in its home country, or anywhere else in Europe.

European law — the General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR — requires companies to get your permission before collecting your personal data. It forbids storing that data indefinitely. The EU AI Act, which took effect this year, restricts technology that identifies and tracks people in public spaces.

The United States of America has no such laws and, in fact, has a federal administration trying to make such laws themselves illegal. Totally normal."

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