ICE and Palantir are definitely motivated to also get involved.
Social credit scores and pre-crime in America isn't far off.
idiotsecant · 50m ago
This seems like fundamentally the information that is being shared is 'this vehicle entered the parking lot'. That information is also accessible by looking at the parking lot with your human eyes.
Definitely not a great trend for police to be collecting more surveillance data but it's also not 'social credit score' hysteria worthy.
king_geedorah · 5m ago
Why would there be a need or desire to bring such an arrangement to fruition if it was not meaningfully different from somebody watching individual cars/parking lots with their human eyes?
southernplaces7 · 28m ago
>That information is also accessible by looking at the parking lot with your human eyes.
There's a blindingly obvious and enormous difference between some random joe the doughnut-grubbing cop watching a Home Depot parking lot to see if certain cars enter it, and digital license plate surveillance data on all cars entering said lot being constantly mass-sent to some federal or corporate-federal database for correlation with reams of other data shared by these same companies and other sources.
Guess where the latter can indeed easily lead? To exactly what you dismiss.
pstuart · 31m ago
If you've seen what ICE has done so far, and the "promises" made by the current regime, it's all valid to worry about unless you fall into the protected class of being a White Multi-Generational-Resident Evangelical Male.
That's not hyperbole, that's their goal and they're saying the quiet parts out loud now.
evanjrowley · 2h ago
This probably has to do with these retail outlets being one of the most highly targeted by organized crime.
ICE and Palantir are definitely motivated to also get involved.
Social credit scores and pre-crime in America isn't far off.
Definitely not a great trend for police to be collecting more surveillance data but it's also not 'social credit score' hysteria worthy.
There's a blindingly obvious and enormous difference between some random joe the doughnut-grubbing cop watching a Home Depot parking lot to see if certain cars enter it, and digital license plate surveillance data on all cars entering said lot being constantly mass-sent to some federal or corporate-federal database for correlation with reams of other data shared by these same companies and other sources.
Guess where the latter can indeed easily lead? To exactly what you dismiss.
That's not hyperbole, that's their goal and they're saying the quiet parts out loud now.
https://abc7news.com/post/los-angeles-stolen-items-home-depo...
https://6abc.com/post/brothers-arrested-organized-retail-the...
https://katv.com/news/local/conway-couple-charged-in-2-milli...