SF News Slow Down! Those Speed Cameras Are Now Up in SF, Starting Today Effective right now, San Francisco is the first city in California to have speed-monitoring cameras that will snap pictures of any vehicle going 11 mph over the speed limit. Though the fines won’t kick in for another 60 days.
SF News SFPD Refuses to Say Where They've Placed Those 400 Automated License Plate Readers All Over Town The new armada of automated license plate readers in SF are taking three million surveillance photos every day, but the SF Police Department is being cagey about disclosing where the hundreds of cameras are located.
SF News AC Transit Says It Will Start Using ‘AI’ Cameras to Bust Cars Parked in Bus Lanes Starting today, the East Bay public transit agency AC Transit will use cameras that they claim are “equipped with artificial intelligence” to cite cars parked in bus lanes, though the agency won’t start issuing $110 citations until early October.
Business & Tech Report: Hidden Cameras Rampant in Airbnb Units, Sexual Predators Allowed to Keep Hosting A new CNN report finds that Airbnb is receiving thousands of complaints a year about creepy hosts using security cameras to record their guests' intimate moments, and the company has allowed sex offenders to keep hosting, or even become “Superhosts.”
SF News SFPD Will Place Its New Surveillance Cameras at 24th and Mission, 19th and Mission Streets After SF voters allowed cops to put more surveillance cameras all over the streets of San Francisco, the SFPD has decided where they will place the first two of them: 24th and Mission streets, and 19th and Mission streets.
SF News Report: SFPD Skirting SF’s Facial Recognition Ban by Just Farming Requests Out to Other Police Departments A new report in the Washington Post says the SFPD is still using the facial recognition tools that it was banned from using five years ago, by just sending requests to other cities' police departments that are still allowed to use those tools.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
SF News Newsom Announces He’s Putting 480 More Street Cameras Up In Oakland to Go After Suspected Criminals A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
SF News SF Is Going to Install 400 License Plate Readers to Hopefully Deter Car Theft, Sideshows, and Such With a $17 million grant from the state to combat retail theft and auto burglaries, San Francisco is going to put 400 license plate readers about town in hopes of catching more criminals.
SF News Speed Limit Cameras Proposed For SF, Oakland, San Jose, Other California Cities The latest proposal to roll out speed-limit detection cameras in the largest California cities is picking up the pace in the state legislature, and drivers in Oakland, SF, and San Jose could get automated speeding tickets for going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
SF News Supervisors Approve Giving SFPD Live Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town The wildly controversial SFPD live monitoring of private security cameras is now official San Francisco city policy, as the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to allow SFPD to monitor those security cameras all over town in real time.
SF Politics Breed and New DA Jenkins Pushing Hard to Expand Police Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town The SFPD could get the power to live-monitor private security cameras all over town, including residential Ring and Nest doorbells, under a contentious new surveillance policy working its way through the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Security Cameras Everywhere In SF Finally Getting Set of Rules For How They Can Be Used A full 10 years and 1,000 surveillance cameras later after a cryptocurrency mogul started putting security cameras all over town, we’re finally getting a set of rules on how they can and cannot be used.
SF News BART Seriously Still Hasn't Replaced Decoy Cameras With Real Ones When 19-year-old Carlos Misael Funez-Romero of Antioch was shot and killed aboard a BART train at the West Oakland Station on January 9, no footage of the crime was available. That's because, like
SF News Mostly Fake BART Surveillance Cameras Will Cost $1.4 Million To Replace The cat has been out of the bag for some time that the "majority" or even the "vast majority" of surveillance cameras onboard BART trains are decoys or otherwise inoperable. In the past
SF News SF Surveillance Cameras Fail According to research done by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, surveillance cameras installed around the city in 2005 have failed to reduce serious crimes like murder
