Interesting — The Camera on Your Street Isn’t Just Watching Your Car.
It started as a license plate reader. The patent says it can become something else entirely.
Patent US11416545 “System and method for object based query of video content captured by a dynamic surveillance network” describes a system capable of:
- Tracking humans by race, gender, height, weight, and clothing
- Querying footage by facial recognition data points
- Integrating with drones
- Sharing data across jurisdictions with no geographic limit
The patent text states that investigators can query the system for any footage having a person with matching face recognition data points.
That’s not a license plate reader. That’s a nationwide facial recognition network waiting to be switched on.
And here’s the part that should be making headlines: none of that requires new hardware. It’s a software update.
https://kayrubacek.substack.com/p/the-camera-on-your-street-isnt-just?
Makes a person wonder if this has anything to do with the 5200 AI datacenters being built across the USA??