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No, the license plates are not the problem. It's the scanning/recording of them that is. License plates provide basically the same info as the title to the car
by giantg2 11mo ago
No, the license plates are not the problem. It's the scanning/recording of them that is.
License plates provide basically the same info as the title to the car or your house. They only supply addition information, such as location when they are recorded somewhere. With things like facial recognition, you don't need the plates to track movement (although it is easier).
The real problem is public surveillance identifying/tracking individuals.
- walletdrainer 11mo agoThe idea of having titles for cars seems fundamentally weird too. We manage fine in most of the rest of the world without any special government paperwork establishing the owner of a vehicle.
- giantg2 11mo agoIt's mostly redundant as the registration schemes in most other countries do the same thing.
- walletdrainer 11mo agoNot necessarily, EU car registration usually provides information about who the car is registered to, not who owns it. These are two different things, of which only the first seems like something the government actually might need to know.
- giantg2 11mo ago"EU car registration usually provides information about who the car is registered to, not who owns it." The authorities disagree. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/formalities/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/...
- walletdrainer 11mo agoNot really sure where you see the disagreement?
- ruined 11mo agoit seems more feasible to get rid of the license plates than to control public or private imaging and analytics of the license plates.
- giantg2 11mo agoIt does seem easier, but very low vlaue. If we let the recoding continue we will still have facial recognition, gait recognition, OnStar tracking, etc.
- ruined 11mo agosure, but those are much less effective as programs and much less difficult to counteract at an individual level. i think taking the easy win here could be very effective and provide a path towards solving the rest.
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- aerostable_slug 11mo agoGiven technology's march forward, it seems that higher resolution cameras would enable tracking systems to determine unique car identities by the pattern of imperfections in the vehicle, much like biologists sort leopards by their spots. IOW, I think removing license plates just buys some time.