In Estonia, more cameras are monitoring people than previously thought – in addition to road cameras, there are nearly 1,600 police cameras in cities and towns that can recognize license plates and faces.
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In Estonia, more cameras are monitoring people than previously thought – in addition to road cameras, there are nearly 1,600 police cameras in cities and towns that can recognize license plates and faces.
The few hundred police license plate recognition cameras that have caused a lot of public debate in recent days are just the tip of the iceberg; in reality, there are well over one and a half thousand of them installed in public spaces, and the task of most of them is to continuously record everyone's faces indiscriminately.