Man gets AI red-light camera ticket in a state he wasn't even in
Promptmethus · x · 2026-08-26
A US man was issued a traffic ticket by an AI red-light camera — in a state he wasn't even in at the time. What should have been easy to resolve turned out to be anything but: the equipment is owned by a private company under a global corporation not even based in the US.
The poster questions that this effectively allows foreign actors to access American citizens' private personal data, highlighting issues of liability and cross-border data privacy in automated AI enforcement.
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