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Residents raise concerns about cloud cameras, license-plate readers and facial recognition
Summary
Before the council's formal start, several residents discussed cloud camera backups, an AI camera system at Paradise High School, and pole-mounted Flock cameras that they said are used to track license plates and are accessible to police; these are resident accounts and were not confirmed by school or police officials in the transcript.
Several residents speaking before the Town Council's formal call to order raised privacy and surveillance concerns, describing ubiquitous cloud cameras, local license-plate readers and an AI camera system they said operates at Paradise High School.
One resident said investigators had recovered cloud backups in a high-profile FBI case even when a user believed material had been deleted, arguing that ‘‘everyone's got a Ring camera now.’’ Another resident described an off‑grid camera system that stores footage on a…
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