New vehicle and people tracking software doesnt need biometrics or license plates
Summary
Jon Gacek, general manager of the company’s public sector business, told StateScoop the original version of the product was born from a need by law enforcement to track suspects during events like riots and high-profile property crimes, like retail theft. Automated license plate readers, a separate technology, have become widespread over the past decade, helping police automatically check for matches against federal watch lists. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, cameras from one popular vendor, Flock Safety, are installed on roadways in at least 2,000 cities. Gacek explained that the software does not use facial recognition, but relies on other attributes, like height or distinguishing clothing or marks, to track people or objects, like vehicles. The use case is they generally know who they are and you’re just trying to find them.” When it comes to object-recognition technology, which relies on machine learning algorithms and large volumes of training data, there’s nothing special about vehicles.