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The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage? (www.thebureauinvestigates.com)
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[–] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's not used for commercial purposes

Maybe not in that way, but private car parks use ANPR all the time to fine you £70 for staying 1 minute over your allotted time

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    It's the same technology, but it's not the same network of cameras, is it? I'd assumed ParkingEye and the like would only have access to their own cameras that they had been contracted to set up by private land owners of car parks.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

    I was thinking on this when I wrote my comment above, and I'm not quite sure.

    Either there's a muddying of terms, where you have ANPR as a technology (which anyone could implement), and the police have their own, separate network of ANPR cameras. Then the police can obtain footage from private cameras as needed through warrants.
    Or private entities submit their data to an ANPR database that the police maintain.

    Regardless, there's not one big private network of ANPR cameras that the government have permitted to be installed on public land, and the police still have checks and balances in place to prevent abuse.

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