This is all well and good, but the problem is that those systems leak left and right. No amount of politics can stop that.

Back in the day when first ALPRs went into operation (I don't remember, was it 10 or 15 years ago) it took about two weeks for the data to appear on darkweb.

Then the same happened to citywide face recognition.

The only way to stop abuse is to not collect the data : ban the systems entirely.

I mean, that's what we ended up doing, as I wrote above.