{"id":676416,"date":"2026-05-17T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:42:10","slug":"ai-license-plate-cameras-tore-this-town-apart-and-led-to-a-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676416\/","title":{"rendered":"AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"55ACRDURNZF33NLXG6AUPS4J34\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">TROY, N.Y. \u2014 The civic uproar began quietly, when a mom walking her newborn spotted a strange black contraption at the end of her block: a camera topped with a solar panel.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EF5SLZBWBFFX3J73EN2STSOCDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dierdre Shea researched the camera and learned that it was an artificial-intelligence-assisted license plate reader \u2014 the type that have caused privacy concerns across the country in recent months, leading to laws limiting their use in more than a dozen states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, N.Y. \u2014 The civic uproar began quietly, when a mom walking her newborn spotted a strange black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,191371,61],"class_list":["post-676416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-partner-exclude","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}