I'll take the first hammer to it:
Downsides:
1) Same software could be used by national/state authorities, to create their own system, that doesn't follow the above rules.
Major Downsides:
1) See above.
Downsides:
1) Same software could be used by national/state authorities, to create their own system, that doesn't follow the above rules.
Major Downsides:
1) See above.
So, think of yourself as a member of government. What would you propose ?
Not like, take over your camera, or install their camera on your property.
There is an upper bound on "top down efficiency" one wants built into a government system, because anything too effective draws corruption to it like no one's business, probability 1.
Cameras and ALPRs aren't going away. It's commodity hardware and software at this point.
I'm only spitballing potential solutions for how to manage the inventory.
Jefferson acknowledged the phenomena in the sense of it being a degenerate pathology of thought or behavior to be aware of or guarded against. Not as an endorsement of "Nah, fuck this liberty shit, put cameras everywhere so we can record everyone's coming and goings. After all, Tyranny is the natural order of things".
https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/natural-progress-thi...
Nothing I hate more than people who grab nuanced Jeffersonian writings and try to use them to sell the legitimacy of an antithetical belief that stands in contrast to most of the contents of the political philosophy he espoused at the time.