On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:55:57 +0200 Stefan Kelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect is in operation in entire > >> Germany. It does OCR on all license plates (also used for police > >> purposes in realtime, despite initial vigorous denial) but > >> currently is only used for truck toll. > >> > > How well does that actually work? There were many articles in RISKS > > Digest about problems with the early deployment. > > That's true wrt to early deployment. Given that the Toll Collect > system has been up and running since January 2005 it (technically) > runs surprisingly well. They have improved tremendously and are > likely to sell their technology to other european countries. > I confess that from a privacy perspective, I'd prefer if it didn't work that well... Thanks. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]