"the city administrator's interests are not necessarily the same as the citizens' interests."
And probably never will be. They want orderly, regulated behavior at all times forever. Normal humans doing this job know this is impossible, but the can bet the job will attract the more "neurodiverse" who (literally) don't get it.
The obvious question IMHO is how much of this is personally identifiable, and why do you "need " it to be so.
My instinct is a lot of the time you need flow data, but you don't actually need to be able to trace every single persons ID (and make no mistake if you're carrying a mobile phone or other wireless device you're pretty easy to tag).
But since collecting that ID data is so easy why not?
Why was ANPR rolled out in the UK?
Simple.
Because they could and no one stopped them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
