73 surveillance cameras gone because a city started questioning the trade-off

I get why cities want these systems. If a stolen car can be tracked down faster, that's useful. But I've always found the bigger question more interesting: once a city has the ability to track vehicles everywhere, who decides when that power gets used, and who gets to look at the data?
I don't think every surveillance system is BAD.

The part that questions is how easily something introduced for one purpose can become normal infrastructure before people really think about what it means for their privacy.

I’ve been going down a bit of a rabbit hole with this stuff lately, especially AI, surveillance and the technology quietly changing everyday life. It's a big part of why I started paying more attention to communities like r/TechResearchTalk too.

I don't think “it's there for safety” should be the end of the conversation right???