License plates scanned and data kept by police
|
My brother & I talked about this a decade ago, about how easy it would be for the parking patrol officers (aka [in another age] meter maids) to scan your license plate and gps location for parking enforcement. So now they've advanced the technology to give them the ability to collect data for more serious offenses. That's not all bad. Where would the Tsarnaev investigation be if Big Brother hadn't been watching?
We don't have an expectation of privacy in public places. Get used to it. ;) |
...and some people don't believe that BIG BROTHER is watching...ha,ha!
|
Quote:
P.S. That's all I'm going to say about ^ or else this thread will head straight for lockdown. |
Apparently rather old news... this article (License Plates, Cameras, and Our Vanishing Privacy - IEEE Spectrum) points out that the Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. has been scanning since 2010. Also, it's not just the Government... repossession agencies are scanning plates too. Wouldn't be terribly surprised if the same concept was being used for some form of marketing too... park at a shopping center and soon after you start getting junk mail from the stores there...
|
Yes, but I think the "new" news is that some (most) agencies are not DISPOSING of the collected data; they are hanging on to most or all of it indefinitely.
|
Quote:
First and foremost, buzz phrases like "no expectation of privacy" have no constitutional basis and are simply an end run around Constitutional freedoms Second, a government dossier on each and every citizen, er, subject, is 100% unconstitutional. And a very, very similar tactic used by the nearly endless list of failed authoritarian governments. Third, warantless tracking of individuals with onboard GPS has been ruled unconstitutional. Why would tracking individuals with other means be any different. As Americans, we have every expectation of going where we want, when we want, and it's nobody's business where or why. So that famous statement above is stunningly flawed. |
Quote:
Private surveillance footage provided most of the early evidence (not Big Brother). And while blatantly violating constitutionally protected rights, thousands of cops lock down a 20-block area and search it "thoroughly" but miss the guy they are looking for. Only when a citizen tells them where he's at (in the area they just searched) is he found. The citizen would have found the guy earlier, but had to wait for the lockdown to be lifted. What a joke. |
Quote:
So you want to argue you have every expectation of going where you want, when you want, and it's nobody's business where or why? Try that argument at the entry gate to your nearest military base, and tell us how far you get. Go ahead and try getting to the cashier's till in a bar, casino, or bank. Geez, Louise! darcane, I hope you don't think Big Brother is just government. Wall Street owns a lot, if not most, politicians. It doesn't matter who owns the cameras that record your movements. The Reddit posse and WalMart security cameras aren't significantly different from their government counterparts. |
Military bases and business cash registers and the like are clearly not public places. :rolleyes:
You say all this spying and database keeping is legal; it must be stretching the 4th to it's very limits if not beyond. Quote:
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:02 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.5.2
All content copyright EcoModder.com