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China equips traffic police with AI smart glasses for real-time vehicle checks
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Sounds like they're living in 1984 to me
Imagine sacrificing everybody's privacy to "make jobs easier" for cops in an techno-authoritarian police state.
Personally, I'm not interested in how easy cop's jobs are, only how good the quality of people's lives are.
Yes, great point. Previously there was a limitation on how easily cops could find a reason to harass you and now there isn't. There's literally zero difference between those scenarios.
If you need technology to help you read a license plate then I'm not surprised you don't understand the ramifications of sweeping AI identification and tracking being used, especially in a country with poor civil rights protections.
What really blows my mind is that some people have such a shallow, surface level understanding of the potential impact of technology on society.
They can identify drivers instantly, thereby reducing privacy immeasurably. I say the same about speed cameras, and if they were installed everywhere the world would be much closer to 1984. Have you read that book?
I have no clue how you're missing the difference between a cop moving their head from side to side to id dozens of individuals and manually typing shit in to id one at a time.
You are coming off like a bootlicker. And I guess you answered my question despite having tried to ignore it. You didn't read it
They cannot possibly do that. That's my entire point. I have no idea what you're arguing about other than you're mad someone thinks this invades privacy which it 1000% does.
Please explain how losing the ability to move through society without every cop knowing you exactly who you are isn't. I'll wait.
Actually fuck this I don't have time for these bad faith bullshits anymore. Blocking is a lovely feature.
Okay, from a naive POV, if this was only used for that purpose, sure it's too bad. But there's logging, theres extra info gathered here.
Scanning a plate instantly enters at a minimum, into a DB:
Do that a multiple times to the same car across the area, every day, now you can extrapolate where they go, when they go, predict what they're doing in the future, the route they take the likely speed they'll go and all sorts of other privacy invading info.
This data could be used to accuse you of a crime, of cheating on your spouse, of speeding without a speed camera based on distance between scans, doing nefarious in their eyes things, etc.
Edit: and just imagine if this data leaked, which it likely would. Stalkers would love it, among theives and all sorts of other people.
Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don't use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.