Parents accepted cameras on school buses for a simple reason: catching drivers who illegally pass a stopped bus and endanger children.
What they weren’t told is that the same technology could eventually become something much bigger: a nationwide surveillance network.
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According to leaked internal documents obtained by 404 Media, BusPatrol — the nation’s largest provider of school bus stop-arm camera systems — plans to transform those buses into a nationwide network of Automatic License Plate Readers. Instead of activating only when a stop-arm violation occurs, the cameras would reportedly record the license plate, location, date, and time of every vehicle they encounter before sharing that information with law enforcement databases.
If fully deployed, the system
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