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Miniaturization of Surveillance Cameras | Josh Frankel

Jen & Friends | Jen's Two Cents. Season 4 Episode 2

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From Arizona to New York, the miniaturization of surveillance cameras could transform everyday spaces into increasingly invisible networks of automated monitoring. 

Scarsdale, New York never installed its proposed Flock Safety license plate reader network. 

But the village is fighting to keep the camera locations secret anyway. 

At the center of the dispute is Josh Frankel, a 25-year Scarsdale resident who has spent months pushing for transparency surrounding the Village’s abandoned Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) project. What started as a local debate over surveillance cameras has quietly evolved into something much bigger: a test of how far governments can go in shielding surveillance plans from public view — even when the technology never leaves the drawing board. 

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