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I submitted it to HN minutes ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057968 It seems to be a new scandal brewin
by joering2 13y ago
I submitted it to HN minutes ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057968
It seems to be a new scandal brewing. Surprises me how long it took. I recall in 2009 in Clearwater Florida when a Sherrif car had a gun-type looking devices pointing all 4 sides of the car. I asked what it was and he told me when he drives this thing picks up license plates and raises two alerts (if any): 1) if the tag is expired, OR if the owner of the car has a DL suspended/etc. If #2 then the picture of driver pops up and he visually checks if gender/look matches... if not, then he ignores the alert.
- swamp40 13y agoGood stuff. It's going to take a lot of outrage to get them to give up tools like that. Those are money makers.
- warmwaffles 13y agoLive in fear. Obey!
- DanBC 13y agoThe UK has had automatic number plate recognition for years; first around Heathrow and the City of London (the financial district, the "square mile", not the entire London city) and then on motorways and elsewhere. We even had a law change to specify the type of fonts you can use for licence plates. I can understand it if they're catching uninsured drivers, or stolen vehicles. But I can't understand why they'd keep it for longer than a month. (I recognize that I'm on the lenient end when I say "a month" and that some people don't want the data to be kept at all.)