-Caveat Lector- Anybody heard anything else about this story? ===================================== > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:45:26 -0800 (PST) > From: Identity Withheld > Subject: WARNING: NY LICENSE PLATES > > First off, this warning came from a source I cannot > disclose as punishment would follow if the person's > name was disclosed. All I can say is that this person > works for New York State and is in a position to be > aware of this. The purpose of this email is to warn > you about a possible privacy invasion. YOU must > follow-up on this through resources at your disposal > to determine if this is true. I believe it is true, > as I know the source I received it from. You, > however, do not have that luxury so you must use this > as a pointer rather than as a confirmation. You must > confirm this in whatever manner is available to you. > > It has been reported that the new NY licence plates > have a microchip imbedded into the state outline > placed in the center of the plate. The purpose of > this chip is for police and other state/governmental > agencies to be able to access all information about > you that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has > placed on the chip by scanning your license plate, > presumably from police vehicles and stationary > scanners placed in structures such as toll booths. It > is supposed to work like the E-Z Pass stickers. > > This chip has already been tested on State-registered > vehicles and has been used to track state employees' > travels. The original reason for using it was to cut > down on absenteeism and fraudulent expenses claimed by > state employees. Now, DMV has decided to use this > chip in all NY-registered vehicles so that all > vehicles can be tracked. No official word of this has > been given by DMV or any other governmental agency in > New York and there is no legitimate reason to use this > technology on all New York drivers. > > While undoubtedly your address, registration and > insurance information is on the chip, we have no way > of telling what other personal information may be on > the chip. It is a known fact that New York DMV has > sold personal information about New York drivers to > private companies in the past. This action speaks > volumes about the lack of respect for individual > rights and privacy DMV has and shows a serious void of > ethical behavior. When looked at with similar types > of behavior by other governmental agencies (drug > testing on unsuspecting civilians; subjecting U.S. > military personnel to radiation from nuclear weapon > testing; allowing the importation of illegal drugs to > pay for weapons passed on to war zones in violation on > U.S. law; etc), it is no stretch of the imagination > that some anonymous civil servant within a > governmental agency would come up with this idea. > Government has certainly done worse that this. > > Of course, they will say that this is done to protect > us.... that a police officer, scanning the license > plate of the car he is following, will instantly know > if the car is stolen, thus providing him safety and > protecting your property. But the fact is this > technology will not help a police office with anything > .... what if your wife or child is driving the car? > How will the officer know that the car is not stolen > but lent? So, because the driver did not fit the DMV > description of the registered owner, the police > officer now has the right to pull over the car and > search it. This is an end-run around the "reasonable > cause" standard and would open wide the door for > police to pull over vehicles and search vehicles for > no reasonable cause, other than the driver does not > fit DMV's description of the owner of the car. And if > this technology is used in toll booths or in other > structures on state highways, governmental agencies > will be able to track your movements wherever you go, > whenever you go. > > I have received my new NY license plates. If you look > at the plate from an angle, you can see two holograms, > one above and one below the state outline in the > center of the plate. The holograms are identical. > They say "NY", under that is three letters and a > number, and below that, the state outline. 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