the city bought a 1 year license to use Placer.ai back in 2024 and decided earlier this year to extend the contract. Placer.ai According to this, the Carbondale Police Department has been accessing the information despite Placer.ai's explicit policy against police departments having access to the information. No idea how the poster got the information about police access to the date or if it is true as people can claim all sorts of things on the internet.
Placer.ai uses publicly available cell phone tracking data to track population movements in covered areas. According to Placer.ai, all information gathered is anonymized with all identifying individual information stripped out. It allows the user to see high and low areas of foot traffic in the covered region. The report linked in the city council minutes, for example, shows foot traffic downtown during the 2024 Homecoming Concert
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