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|Website=https://buspatrol.com | |Website=https://buspatrol.com | ||
|Description=BusPatrol uses AI security cameras inside school buses to scan for vehicles that engage in traffic violations. | |Description=BusPatrol uses AI security cameras inside school buses to scan for vehicles that engage in traffic violations. | ||
}}[ | }}[[BusPatrol]] is an AI surveillance and law enforcement aiding business. They make cameras that are installed in school buses that use Artificial Intelligence to detect traffic violations of nearby vehicles incidents are reviewed by a human and are then forwarded to the local relevant law enforcement agency.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-05-07 |title=How Automated Stop-Arm Enforcement Programs Work {{!}} BusPatrol |url=https://buspatrol.com/stop-arm-overview/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260414201824/https://buspatrol.com/stop-arm-overview/ |archive-date=2026-04-14 |access-date=2026-05-07 |website=BusPatrol}}</ref> | ||
==Consumer-impact summary== | ==Consumer-impact summary== | ||
====User Privacy==== | |||
School buses equipped with [[BusPatrol]]'s Automated Stop-Arm Enforcement collect "valuable data every time they stick out their stop signs".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duncan |first=Byard |date=2026-04-14 |title=BusPatrol School Bus Traffic Tickets Have Limited Safety Benefits, Critics Say Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-14/buspatrol-school-bus-traffic-tickets-have-limited-safety-benefits-critics-say |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/DNMyi |archive-date=2026-04-14 |access-date=2026-05-27 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> | |||
==Incidents== | ==Incidents== | ||
This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]]. | This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]]. | ||
=== | ===Turn all existing installed cameras into ALPR cameras (''2026-05-26'')=== | ||
{{Main|link to the main CR Wiki article}} | {{Main|link to the main CR Wiki article}} | ||
In May 2026 [[BusPatrol]] announced their plans to add ALPR to all of their existing installed AI powered cameras. With 40,000 buses across 24 states this would turn these cameras from target surveillance of traffic violators to dragnet style mass surveillance. Similar to [[Flock license plate readers|Flock ALPR Cameras]] this data would be given to law enforcement without the need for a warrant. "Internally, BusPatrol has acknowledged how controversial its plan to collect and share this data is, pointing specifically to concerns about ICE using license plate data, but emphasizes the likely success of selling the angle of protecting children."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Joseph |date=2026-05-26 |title=‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access |url=https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/o/hgSOT/ |archive-date=2026-05-26 |access-date=2026-05-27 |website=404media}}</ref> | |||
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