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Legal and Privacy issues
==History==
==History==
The company Leonardo began its story in 2004, as a join venture between Finmeccanica and [[Remington|Remington Arms]]. Their goal was to develop, create, and deploy automatic license plate recognition systems for United States market. By 2008, Remington had withdrawn from the venture, and under the name ELSAG North America LLC., it was a subsidiary of Finmeccanica.<ref name="SIA member">https://www.securityindustry.org/2023/03/09/sia-new-member-profile-leonardo-elsag-alpr-systems/</ref>
The company Leonardo began its story in 2004, as a join venture between Finmeccanica and [[Remington|Remington Arms]]. Their goal was to develop, create, and deploy automatic license plate recognition systems for United States market. By 2008, Remington had withdrawn from the venture, and under the name ELSAG North America LLC., it was a subsidiary of Finmeccanica.<ref name="SIA member">https://www.securityindustry.org/2023/03/09/sia-new-member-profile-leonardo-elsag-alpr-systems/</ref>
==Legal and Privacy issues==
Although Leonardo ELSAG began is a fairly simple ALPR system for live vehicle identification, they have expanded into tracking vehicles over time, developing a "robust data analytical tool to mine information." This can provide many insights into the personal lives of everyone under this surveillance, and goes against the [[Fourth Amendment|fourth amendment]] to the U.S. constitution.
AI-powered mass surveillance which Leonardo ELSAG now offers, can be useful. However, it comes with some significant legal and ethical problems. The [[Fourth Amendment|Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution]] provides strong protections against "unreasonable searches and seizures," without a legal warrant, which clearly defines who is being subjected to a search, what place will be searched, and the duration of the search. It also needs to be signed by a judge. Based on legal precedent, tracking the movements of a person over time, is a form of a search, which therefore requires a specific and limited search warrant.<ref>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/585/16-402/</ref><ref>https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/565/400/</ref>
Unfortunately, these systems are also prone to abuse. There have been many cases of those with access to unrestricted tracing data, using it to stalk former romantic partners,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom</ref>, groups of children,<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flock-safety-employees-watched-kids-151737512.html</ref> and others.<ref>https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/</ref><ref>https://lookout.co/georgia-police-chief-arrested-for-using-flock-cameras-for-stalking-and-harassment-searched-capitola-data-earlier-this-year/story</ref><ref>https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-ai-surveillance-stalking</ref>