On Aug. 20, Members of Desert Rising gathered on the campus mall, and underneath the very cameras that they object to, stretched out a banner that read “MASS SURVEILLANCE DOES NOT EQUAL SAFETY.”
Desert Rising is a nonpartisan human rights organization that is demanding that the University ends its contract with Flock Safety, a company that makes automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). These cameras, which are sold to law enforcement agencies, HOAs and businesses, gather data on every passing vehicle using AI technology. That information is stored in a database, which is nationally accessible to police departments and other customers.
Now, these cameras are all around campus…