Chapter 5: Putting it all together.

The final route with no images included.

In the end, I was able to take all of the data and export it to KML file useful in Google My Maps or Google Earth. I am placing them on a separate page for convenience. I have created a few varied versions for you to peruse. The route itself is color coded red, yellow, and green to indicate speed based on time of travel between each logged location. I personally suggest you download the large KMZ file for Google Earth, put on some music, and sit back and take the tour.

I chose the name "One Way Meetings" for this site when I thought I would get more face detected images. I hoped to capture the faces of unsuspecting passers-by in their cars or on street corners. I hope it provokes you to thinking about what it means when police erect cameras on almost every street corner in a city, on their bodies, or on their squad cars, practicing facial detection and recognition techniques with them. Or, when companies have them erected over every entrance and corridor, be it for a small gas station or a large business institution. According to the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, half of Americans have their faces already in a law enforcement facial recognition database. Law enforcement is able to do this because, when we are out in public, in our cars or on the street corners, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Police around the country are becoming increasingly militarized at an alarming rate. They are simultaneously being given access to unprecedented levels of surveillance which cover a broad swath of the American public with very little accountability. They are often receiving little or no training in how to properly deploy these. The potential for abuse rises, and we increasingly approach a time where the only thing separating the free citizens of the United States from an era of authoritarian dictatorship are words on paper and the will of men to obey them.

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