{"id":698170,"date":"2026-05-16T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698170"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:25:53","slug":"interesting-the-camera-on-your-street-isnt-just-watching-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698170","title":{"rendered":"Interesting &#8212; The Camera on Your Street Isn\u2019t Just Watching Your Car."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"subtitle subtitle-HEEcLo\" dir=\"auto\">It started as a license plate reader. The patent says it can become something else entirely.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US11416545B1\/en\">Patent US11416545<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cSystem and method for object based query of video content captured by a dynamic surveillance network\u201d<\/em>\u00a0describes a system capable of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tracking humans by race, gender, height, weight, and clothing<\/li>\n<li>Querying footage by facial recognition data points<\/li>\n<li>Integrating with drones<\/li>\n<li>Sharing data across jurisdictions with no geographic limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The patent text states that investigators can query the system for <em><strong>any footage having a person with matching face recognition data points<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a license plate reader. That\u2019s a nationwide facial recognition network waiting to be switched on.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the part that should be making headlines:\u00a0<strong>none of that requires new hardware.<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s a software update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kayrubacek.substack.com\/p\/the-camera-on-your-street-isnt-just?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=fe205&amp;triedRedirect=true\">https:\/\/kayrubacek.substack.com\/p\/the-camera-on-your-street-isnt-just?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Makes a person wonder if this has anything to do with the 5200 AI datacenters being built across the USA??<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started as a license plate reader. The patent says it can become something else entirely. Patent US11416545\u00a0\u201cSystem and method for object based query of video content captured by a dynamic surveillance network\u201d\u00a0describes a system capable of: Tracking humans by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698171,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698170\/revisions\/698171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}