It's a done deal: everywhere your car with a license plate goes is and will be tracked, and stored forever.
It's already happening, it is already cheap, and there's no way to stop it short of a massive swell of public support for enacting laws to limit it -- in the USA, that seems very unlikely.
What I think is important to extrapolate from this stuff is that everything we can do with license plate recognition now will soon be doable with facial recognition.
Tracking everywhere your car has been and storing the record forever is one thing. It's very hard to imagine that tracking everywhere your face has been isn't the next step.
It's already happening, it is already cheap, and there's no way to stop it short of a massive swell of public support for enacting laws to limit it -- in the USA, that seems very unlikely.
What I think is important to extrapolate from this stuff is that everything we can do with license plate recognition now will soon be doable with facial recognition.
Tracking everywhere your car has been and storing the record forever is one thing. It's very hard to imagine that tracking everywhere your face has been isn't the next step.