Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) aren’t just helping police investigate crimes anymore. They’re now being used to flag drivers for supposedly “suspicious” driving patterns.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    The Wired article linked by the OP article mentions visiting multiple banks in a week as suspicious behavior that gets flagged… if we had a car (assuming it needs a license plate to attach to you and look up info), that would have pinged my spouse last week. Stupid fucks live in such ivory towers that they’ve never had a bank run out of quarters for the washing machine.

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      I used to visit the bank way more often when living paycheck to paycheck because it was the only way to get ahead of insufficient funds charges. I was depositing cash from whatever I could sell to pay off the $25 per item overdraft fees.

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      I used to be a manager at a smoothie shop. went to like two banks a day with different business needs, guess that’s not allowed… who knew?

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      5 days ago

      Side benefit of the extreme proliferation of gambling: basically every bar has a shitload of quarters now.