The NSW Government's mobile phone detection cameras, heralded as "world-first" road safety technology, work by capturing wide-angled images of all passing drivers and front passengers through the windscreens of cars to check if they're using a phone while behind the wheel.
Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics was preparing to pitch New York’s transit authority on how it could help enforce impending “congestion pricing” rules, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Intercept.
[A]s the technology has matured, it's gotten in the hands of organizations that, five years ago, would never have been able to consider it. Small-town police departments can suddenly afford to conduct surveillance at a massive scale.