Swell.
From Knowable Magazine, March 17:
Roving Eyes
Surveillance cameras on private vehicles expand a landscape of paranoia
What happens when a networked surveillance system like Amazon’s web of Ring doorbell cameras is no longer fixed to particular homes but goes mobile? Meet Canopy, the “first smart vehicle security system accessory,” according to its developer, a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. and ADT security monitoring. Launching in early 2023, the system uses acoustic sensors, onboard cameras, radar, LTE, and GPS to detect “true threats” to a vehicle and its contents. A promotional video makes the initial target demographic plain: A man approaches a pickup truck on a suburban street, as overlaid text tells viewers of the $7.4 billion of property lost to auto theft and items stolen out of vehicles. When the interloper peers into the truck’s utility bed to see that it’s filled with tools, the truck’s owner is alerted on his phone and shown the view from one of the onboard cameras. At that point, the phone becomes a megaphone, as the owner shouts a message through speakers installed in the vehicle: “Hey, get away from my truck!” The interloper scurries away and the truck owner returns to his workbench, smiling to himself at the ease and effectiveness of the networked intervention....
....MUCH MORE
