Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #713 in September 2022. If you like to subscribe to the NMA one topic motorist issue newsletter, click here. Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ […]
Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education? NMA E-Newsletter #713
Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ The department hopes that the program will bring more awareness to speeding. Lt. Nate Allen added, “One of our number one complaints in the city of Green Bay is traffic and the way people […]
Lime Turns E-Scooters into Micromobility Surveillance Platforms
By Joe Cadillic, founder of Politically Incorrect News on Substack Under the guise of public safety, Lime’s E-scooters could soon be recording everyone and everything they see. A recent article in TechCrunch revealed that Lime’s advanced rider assistance technology (ARAT) will be using a camera to detect when riders are on sidewalks. “At a Lime event in Paris, the […]
Public Realizes Nowhere is Safe from Big Brother as Chula Vista, CA Police Celebrate 10,000th Drone Call
From Joe Cadillic, founder MassPrivatel Blog This story should serve as a warning to everyone: police are lying about only using drones to cover emergency calls. Red flags should have been going up all across the country when the Chula Vista Police Department announced that it took them only three years to have their drones […]
2021: The Year Flock Safety License Plate Readers Exploded Across the Country
By guest writer Joe Cadillic, founder of the MassPrivatel Blog 2021 will also go down as the year police/Flock Safety license plate readers exploded across the country. One major development that went overlooked by the mass media is Flock Safety’s role in the ever-expanding network of police license plate readers. From January 2021-December 2021, law […]
License Plate Readers use Footage from Ring, Smartphones, and ATMs to ID Vehicles
By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the MassPrivatel Blog in September 2021. The NMA has permission to repost on the Driving in America Blog. Flock Safety’s license plate readers can now ID vehicles from any camera source. Basically, Flock Safety has turned every camera in […]
License Plate Readers are Ticketing Cars for Polluting the Air
From Joe Cadilllic, co-writer of the NMA Street Surveillance Watch and editor of the Mass Prviatel Blog Forget all the exaggerated claims public officials told us about CCTV cameras and public safety. Move over Vision Zero proponents because there is a new player in town. License plate readers that can ID and fine vehicles for polluting the […]
Officials use the COVID-19 Crisis to Create Statewide Vehicle Surveillance Programs Run by Rekor Systems
By Joe Cadillic, Cowriter for NMA’s Street Surveillance Blog and Editor of the MassPrivatel Blog Cash-strapped states are using COVID as an excuse to create AI-driven vehicle recognition or license plate reader surveillance programs. As Rekor Systems President/CEO Robert Berman proudly boasts on the video, “…because our technology works so well for vehicle recognition, we do […]
A License Plate to Remember
Editor’s Note: This post originally was sent to member as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #490 in June 2018. If you would like to receive the one-topic per week NMA newsletter, become a member today! When you join you receive many other member benefits plus help us help you keep up with motorists’ rights issues like this. […]
Is Amazon the World’s Largest Private Surveillance Company?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog In late September, many news articles came out about Amazon’s new surveillance direction. Joe even wrote a post on the MassPrivatel blog entitled: Amazon Drone Deliveries: The Greatest Threat to Privacy Americans Have Ever Seen. Credit: William Warby Shelia: Joe, can you explain what […]