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To put it even more bluntly, automatic license plate scanning doesn't really seem to have been bad for anybody, aside from people on the lam. Though I am open
by sliverstorm 12y ago
To put it even more bluntly, automatic license plate scanning doesn't really seem to have been bad for anybody, aside from people on the lam.
Though I am open to examples to the contrary.
- angersock 12y agoThis is the sort of apparatus that, once installed, lies dormant until one day it is called into action and springs shut, clamping down on freedom. Just because they're building the gallows slowly and using such wonderful rope doesn't make the eventual hanging any less troublesome. EDIT: You know, 70 years ago today the Red Army found out what could be done with good record keeping and decent surveillance, and at what scale. Imagine, just imagine, if you could type your favorite demographic into a terminal, get a list of everyone fitting that and some other criteria, and then a list of addresses and doors to knock on. Mankind and government has never done well with such power.
- a3n 12y agoThis would seem to be a great database for the police to watch for juicy civil forfeiture targets to stumble through their jurisdiction, to seize a car or its possible contents. How would they know that you have good stuff inside the car? Other databases.