AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows::The decision to install cameras in UK lay-bys aims to prevent littering but one campaign group described the approach as “meaningless.”

  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    I’m just not convinced that there is one government out there that doesn’t spy on its people one way or another.

    They’ll never ever give up the ability to collect intel on its own people, but we can sure put up a fight and hold them off as best we can.

    Wonder how the founding fathers would feel about this, but kinda expect just to find out they were doing the same thing but with physical people/spies

      • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        If you were going to consider the UK monarchy in it’s most recent form, you’d go back to the Norman invasion of 1066 and King William the Conqueror.

        Most of the big land owners in the UK to this day can be traced back to the Norman conquest.

        If you were going to consider the UK in its modern parliamentary form, you’d go back to the English civil war (1642-1651) where Oliver Cromwell overthrew King Charles I.

      • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        I was applying the story to the states who also share a problem in this, sorry for the confusion

    • Derrio@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      10 months ago

      Did you read the article at all?

      Regardless, this shouldn’t come as a surprise; the UK has been a surveillance state, at a minimum, for decades.

      • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Yes, and I was asking a tangential question which was most prevalent to my own experiences and living situation.

        The states have a very similar problem with law enforcement and placing their own cameras all over too. If anyone needs reference check out these Flock cameras.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      10 months ago

      They were part of the capitalist class. Aside from being extremely confused about the tech, they’d most likely support it.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        A man in a tower with a spy glass who can remember every location and identity of every person they see. Yeah, they’d eat that shit up.