An engineer built a Flock-like camera to detect police cars, says officers visited him afterward
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The takeaway: A Canadian software engineer who built a camera to identify police cars says two officers came to his home to ask why he was tracking them. They were concerned that repeated observations could expose their routines – the same information that makes searchable vehicle records useful to police and troubling to people being watched.
Anthony Sistilli described Peel Regional Police's visit last month in a YouTube video that he recently posted. His project uses automatic license plate recognition, or ALPR – the technology police use to record passing vehicles and search for them later. But Sistilli designed his camera to pick out police vehicles rather than collect plates from all traffic.
Sistilli built the prototypewith a $180 camera and used AI coding tools to develop its software. The first version...
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