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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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[–] 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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.