The key phrase being “without oversight”.
According to Ross McNutt the founder, the data is low resolution, and is kept for 45 days and accessed by the company only in an investigation. Is there an expectation of privacy when walking or driving in a public place?
There’s the stingray which snoops on smartphones, cameras and license plate readers everywhere and while they may be an invasion of privacy you know I can think of at least one case where the single lead for the murder of a child in Ontario came from a grainy surveillance video.
I can see the implications, and yet if a child is kidnapped and you could potentially use a system like this to save that child?
The thing is you can have surveillance without the technology - I spent my childhood in Communist country where friends and neighbours, even family could report you. The vigilance we need is against ending up with a crappy government.
