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What happened
A company called BusPatrol installed AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses across the US. Now they plan to use those cameras to automatically scan and record the license plates of every car near a school bus — and hand that data over to law enforcement.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
This means that just driving near a school bus could get your car logged in a police database, without any suspicion of wrongdoing. Parents sending their kids to school in the morning may not realize their commute is being turned into a surveillance operation. Critics are calling it a dragnet — casting a wide net and capturing everyone, guilty or not.
Takeaway
Your kid's school bus might already be watching you. And the question nobody agreed to answer is: who gets to see that data?
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