A police officer speeds 70 MPH down a two-lane highway running over a bridge in the Florida Keys. He passes a dump truck in a no-passing zone, then immediately does it again, crossing over a double-yellow line to pass another truck. He passes a third vehicle, nearly causing a head-on collision with a white pickup truck that veers away from him in the oncoming traffic. The cop keeps driving, and sees the SUV he’s been in pursuit of. He flicks his sirens and lights on and pulls it over.

The cop, Lamar Roman, wasn’t trying to pull over a suspected criminal. He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad Monkey, which he had worked a security detail shift on a few weeks prior to pulling her over. After meeting the woman, catcalling her and harassing her for her full name and Instagram details, the cop illegally looked up her vehicle information on DAVID, a Florida Department of Motor Vehicles database for law enforcement. He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.

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    18 days ago

    I worry how terrible this is, its enough how much stalking there is already, why make it easier for no benefit for the public at all?

    This new stalking technology doesnt help end crimes, drug dealers, murderers, NOTHING!
    But only increases stalking and harassment.

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      18 days ago

      Well you see the tech bros want to control everything you think and everything you do. This is for that.

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      17 days ago

      Knowing the location of everyone at any time is of enormous importance to big tech (big capitalism in general), a bunch of secret police and intelligence agencies as well as any other nefarious actors you can think of. So local politicians can earn a lot of bribe money if they consent to having these things installed in their areas.

      It being beneficial to local crooks and bullies is just an extra perk of their general dystopian shittiness.