Robotaxis being operated by companies like Waymo and Cruise use scores of cameras and sensors to avoid screwing up traffic and crashing into stuff. Those cameras record everything, though, including the faces and license plates of the people and cars they drive past … and now, the cops want access to that video.
A senior policy analyst at nonprofit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Matthew Guariglia, argues that the issue isn’t police gathering evidence, it’s that there’s not always transparency on how the data police will gather from such data seizures will be stored, or how the police can access it.
