City parking garages now using surveillance tech to collect fees
Metropolis Technology, a young AI start-up that uses video to capture license plate numbers, took over 4,000 garages last year.
Late Friday, Charlottesville announced that its downtown parking garages on Market and Water Street would be switching on Tuesday to a video license plate reading system to collect parking fees.
Wait, what? Didn’t the city just decide not to move forward with the Flock camera system over concerns about data collection?
“There are really two companies, one’s Palantir and the other Peregrine, which is an offshoot of Palantir, that seem to be developing techniques for synthesizing literally millions of data points about millions of people,” Councilor Lloyd Snook told WINA news radio. “We don’t need that kind of centralization of the data.”
However, a company called Metropolis Technology, which uses AI technology to collect da…
