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Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket (www.gadgetreview.com)

submitted 3 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

An example of what people in positions of authority think is perfectly acceptable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home. After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images.

A lawsuit wasn't enough, the administrators should be branded as sex offenders and the parents should have taken them out behind the school and beat the crap out of them.

[–] some_guy 8 points 2 days ago

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Attorney's Office, and Montgomery County District Attorney all initiated criminal investigations of the matter, which they combined and then closed because they did not find evidence "that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent".

If I don't have intent to commit a crime but I break the law, it's not an excuse that a cop or judge will buy. Holy fuck.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I seem to recall something about a story where, like, a kids mom didnt know the camera was remotely turned on and walked through the room naked, after having just gotten out of the shower, and there was some kind of CPS investigation about it?

or is my brain mixing up several different school district voyeur stories together?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

The school took 66,000 pictures of students in their bedrooms. School administrators should be listed as sex offenders but that doesn't happen in the U.S. Case in point - our child rapist in chief.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Nope, that happened. If the institution spying on you in your home sees you naked, in your own home where you foolishly expect privacy, you're a criminal.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago

Why did they even have the ability to do that in the first place? Holy fuck dude