San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’ algorithms to detect the unwanted objects, according to interviews and documents the Guardian obtained through public records requests.

  • MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    132·
    9 months ago

    Being homeless is like the software piracy equivalent of housing. You’re not paying but rich people are “losing money” since homeless people aren’t paying them $4000+/month therefore it’s a crime.

    • root@precious.netEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      Do you really think the concerns about encampments are all from rent seeking landlords?

      Here in Minneapolis it’s the number of murders, gang violence (territory), rape, and human trafficking.

      Second tier issues are overdoses, fires, sanitation (which doesn’t sound like much until you see the people with fingers and toes rotting off), and crime rates increasing as they try to make enough money to feed their drug habits.

      It’s a very complex issue. Much more complex than “the landlords are upset people aren’t paying rent”.