Author: Matthew Hallock

VICTORY: Rights of Man Score a Win as Gov. Lamont Calls for Surveillance Cameras Pause

Faced with sustained community outrage, lawsuits from the ACLU and other rights groups, fierce criticism over the lack of transparency and public input, cybersecurity, vendor profits and the approval process of the contracts themselves, CT Governor Ned Lamont on Friday called for an immediate statewide halt to new deployments of speed cameras and automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

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Watch: Thomas Paine-In-The-Rear on Speed Cameras & Surveillance

“In the Colonies, we do not tolerate remote tyrants surveilling our habits and patterns.” — Thomas Paine-In-The-Rear, Uncommon Sense. While local town debates focus on traffic tickets and speed limits, a much larger municipal crisis is unfolding in Town Hall: data sovereignty. When town officials sign off on automated traffic enforcement programs, citizen license plates, movement patterns, and location timestamps get harvested and routed directly into out-of-state, third-party corporate clouds. 

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