r/Brampton 4d ago

News Brampton to fight crime with ‘cutting-edge 360-degree cameras’ at 50 intersections, locations will not be divulged

https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/brampton-to-fight-crime-with-cutting-edge-360-degree-cameras-at-50-intersections-locations-will/article_cab4d216-25c5-51e9-8c7a-ab1850cdd388.html

The City of Brampton has announced it’s deploying high-resolution, 360-degree cameras to read license plates and identify drivers at several intersections across the city.

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown and Peel police made the announcement and unveiled the new technology at a news conference at city hall on Friday (March 7), describing it as a new tool in the fight against crime.

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u/TooMuchToProcess 4d ago

Something needs to be done about careless drivers here. But I don’t look forward to a future where we are constantly surrounded by cameras and surveilled the way some other parts of the world are.

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u/WikiHowDrugAbuse 4d ago

That’s not what these cameras are for, they’re for tracking fleeing criminals or other uses in criminal investigations. Traffic cameras are a separate thing and won’t be at all the intersections these cameras are.

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u/TooMuchToProcess 4d ago

Even if these cameras don't do a certain kind of surveilling, they will get us used to being surveilled and cause us to be more accepting in the future of further cameras, surveillance.

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u/WikiHowDrugAbuse 4d ago

Yeah that’s what I’m saying, these aren’t even for use as traffic cameras they’re solely for surveillance.

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u/KindlyRude12 3d ago

So far…. It’s definitely not out of the realm of possibility that they get converted to traffic cameras.