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FINALLY! The best case here is that by scanning plates, you are casting a wide net and investigating without reasonable suspicion - which itself is a violation
by Epopeehief54 7y ago
FINALLY! The best case here is that by scanning plates, you are casting a wide net and investigating without reasonable suspicion - which itself is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. The security and usage of that data is a whole other can of worms that also needs to be addressed.
Also, fwiw, if you drive a car made in the last 5 years, in all likelihood the manufacturer is tracking you as well.
- PeterStuer 7y agoMost people are completely oblivious to just how far surveillance capitalism is observing their every move inside public and private spaces. Sad truth is that even if they would be aware, they'd just shrug their shoulders and let it be as they would have been framed to see it as either an inevitable state of things, or, being done in the name of their 'security' or some other vague benefit (personalized service). Frameworks like the GDPR are steps in the right direction, but unless enforcement is staffed and funded at a scale to match the threat (It is not, not even close on a galactic scale), its impacts will mostly be cosmetic. Don't get me wrong, I do applaud the work of privacy advocates, but unless we have a systemic change to reign in surveillance capitalism and captured regulation, things will only get worse.