Every Place You Go
If you think Klaus Schwab's little rodent in Sacramento gives a fig about your obeying the traffic laws, George Orwell has some news for you. It's the next stage of "Contract Tracing", where it becomes blatantly obvious that every move you make will be watched and recorded:
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence."
--George Orwell,
"1984"
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In the Bay Area, drivers could soon start racking up speeding tickets without ever getting pulled over, after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a controversial speed camera bill, AB 645, into law over the weekend.
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But the bill also has a major equity component in its attempt to decrease the possibility of police violence during traffic stops. The bill text specifically cites “traditional enforcement methods” — i.e., traffic stops — as situations that put drivers of color at risk.
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Advocates of the bill said that it will help save lives...
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In September, a broad coalition of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union California Action, Human Rights Watch, and Black Lives Matter CA published an open letter asking Gov. Newsom to veto the bill on the basis of those concerns.
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The group argued that, far from helping marginalized communities, the speed camera scheme would instead serve as a form of “wealth-extraction”, taking money out of the pockets of people who have been impacted by “historically racist urban planning decisions.”
Newsom approves automatic speed cameras for San Jose, Oakland pilot program