Cross posted from https://piefed.social/c/privacy@lemmy.world/p/2212799/you-know-about-flock-cameras-meet-nema-nodes-they-turn-streetlights-into-a-surveillance
Standardized NEMA sockets let municipalities add cameras and air sensors to existing poles with no public vote or new hardware
You can’t control if you are in a place where wifi is turned on… The “wifi radar” doesn’t need you to have a device with wifi on to “see” you - it “sees” YOU in the physical world. Your body blocking the signal.
Also, on the actual OP subject, a Nema Node is basically just a specific power socket… Wild that they can basically just install extra power outlets all over the city and then later go plug in an AI face tracker 5000 to every one of them with no further oversight just because “the outlet was already there”…
so a nema node is just an outlet
any outlet can support surveillance
this is nothing
It seems to me more that they are stating the way the regulations are written, if they install the outlets now, they don’t have to get anyone’s permission to install the surveillance later. Which is wild if true.
you obviously don’t understand the basics of this topic
the outlets aren’t be replaced, it’s what is plugged into them.