Kashmir Hill
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457 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Kashmir Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good to be here.
So these are cameras that take photos of cars and read their license plates.
If you start looking around as you're driving, you might see them on a pole by the road.
Solar panel, camera looking down your way.
And they're in places where people maybe aren't used to being surveilled.
You know, they're in rural roads, just in communities that don't necessarily have a lot of other cameras around.
Also, people do have this kind of privacy attachment to their cars.
And so I think Americans kind of think of your car as this kind of symbol of freedom, this thing you can get.
away from everyone, but now you can't because there are gonna be cameras tracking it.
And so my colleague Fernando Alfonso and I found that people were just getting really upset about these cameras.
And it was a level of uproar over privacy that I haven't seen before, or at least haven't seen in a very long time.
Yeah.
So the cameras take photos of cars as they pass.
They get the license plate, but you can also use a system to search other things like the color of the car, the make of the car, whether it has a bumper sticker or visible damage or a toolbox on the back.
And this gives police more visibility into our movements than they've ever had before.
This company called Flock is the industry leader.
They're kind of the name that everybody knows because they're the biggest.
Flock alone has a hundred and twenty thousand of these cameras across the country in every state but Alaska.
7,000 law enforcement agencies have contracts with Flock, which is about 40% of all law enforcement in the country.
very ubiquitous.
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