Yes you will make it easier for kiwifarms to create an ALPR network if you GPL it.
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Yes you will make it easier for kiwifarms to create an ALPR network if you GPL it. Also social change activists, news stations, “news” stations, nosy neighbors, overseas companies interested in obtaining intelligence on US citizens, people who hate racing on public roads, neighborhood watch, people who want to make ALPR bans functionally impossible by making them indistinguishable from dashcams, people who want to make rich people sweat by tracking their movements.
If you don’t GPL it, you’ll demonstrate that a small team can create an ALPR system, so, they might think, why not give it a try?
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Yes you will make it easier for kiwifarms to create an ALPR network if you GPL it. Also social change activists, news stations, “news” stations, nosy neighbors, overseas companies interested in obtaining intelligence on US citizens, people who hate racing on public roads, neighborhood watch, people who want to make ALPR bans functionally impossible by making them indistinguishable from dashcams, people who want to make rich people sweat by tracking their movements.
If you don’t GPL it, you’ll demonstrate that a small team can create an ALPR system, so, they might think, why not give it a try?
I think you might be over-estimating the power of Predator a bit. There are already companies dedicated entirely to high-end vehicle-based ALPR, as well as fixed road-side ALPR networks. Most of the scenarios you've listed are significantly more difficult to accomplish using Predator, since it's inherently self contained. An individual might be able to tell that they've passed a specific vehicle a few times over the past few months, but they won't be able to collect nearly enough data to "track" them.
Here's a scenario: A driver has a Predator dash-cam installed in their vehicle. One day, the local police put out a notice asking if anyone has seen a specific stolen vehicle. The driver goes home, imports the Predator data, and finds that they have records of passing that vehicle twice over the past month. They report that information to police to help with the investigation.
The concern with this is that the ability to import data makes it possible for a coordinated organization (like a police force) to install cameras in a fleet of vehicles, and manually import that data at the end of each shift. With a larger set of information, you could realistically use Predator to track the habits of individual vehicles.
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I think you might be over-estimating the power of Predator a bit. There are already companies dedicated entirely to high-end vehicle-based ALPR, as well as fixed road-side ALPR networks. Most of the scenarios you've listed are significantly more difficult to accomplish using Predator, since it's inherently self contained. An individual might be able to tell that they've passed a specific vehicle a few times over the past few months, but they won't be able to collect nearly enough data to "track" them.
Here's a scenario: A driver has a Predator dash-cam installed in their vehicle. One day, the local police put out a notice asking if anyone has seen a specific stolen vehicle. The driver goes home, imports the Predator data, and finds that they have records of passing that vehicle twice over the past month. They report that information to police to help with the investigation.
The concern with this is that the ability to import data makes it possible for a coordinated organization (like a police force) to install cameras in a fleet of vehicles, and manually import that data at the end of each shift. With a larger set of information, you could realistically use Predator to track the habits of individual vehicles.
I was assuming a long delay between event capture and event logging, when brainstorming use cases.
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