Los Angeles recently decided to proceed with installing hundreds of Axon’s Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) after severing ties with the scandal-plagued Flock company. Consequently, Axon is now confronting a class-action lawsuit that suggests the underlying issue extends beyond Flock specifically and targets the broader AI-powered surveillance state.
According to a report from Reuters, the lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by the law firms Hausfeld and Gibbs Mura. It alleges that Axon has failed to adhere to a specific California privacy provision by not adequately disclosing how it collects, utilizes, and shares the license plate data captured through its camera systems.
The legal documents state, "Axon has created a mass-surveillance infrastructure that is practically impossible to avoid."
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