Seeing all of the Flock posts lately got me wondering: is there a privacy-preserving way to accomplish the public benefit of traffic/speed cameras (reducing speeding and red light running) without also turning them into blanket ALPR spies tracking where everyone goes?
The best idea I came up with is a split system architecture that treats the camera as adversarial.
Andrew Zonenberg
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