begin quoting Richard Reynolds as of Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:12:59PM -0700: > >Especially if it's just looking for the right color tag on the correct > >location on the license plate. That's technology taking care of a > >tedious and boring job. > > IF it were looking for the tag, tags have rarely been effective
Um... I would think that tags wouldn't be effective because it's a tedious and boring job checking lots of cars for a small number with a missing tag. Tedious and boring job = ineffective enforcement. > >Now, if they're recording every license plate seen along with GPS > >location and date/time, and hanging on to that to "assist in future > >investigations", well, yeah, that's getting into big brother territory. > > and what else do you think they do with the gps data, throw it away! your > kidding right. they know the public is too stupid to do anything about it My what? I don't know /what/ data they are collecting. Do they have a GPS and an OCR system in place to read license plates in police vehicles? Are they keeping all the time/location/license-plate information in a big database somewhere? They *could* be, but paranoia is a poor substitute for data. > >When they mount a camera on the dash to watch you drive... that's > >big brother. > > I actually have to take both sides on this one. the dash cameras protect > both us and the officers, in some areas its not hard to get the tape of I was thinking about a camera on /your/ dashboard, watching /you/ drive. Sorry, I rephrased, and lost essential information. > your interaction with the police, and you can use that in your defence. and > even though i dont like the current attitude I do feel that we should > protect the officers out on the front line, mind washed as they are, that > camera protects them from the scum of the planet also. Cameras on the police cars seem like a good idea all the way around... but again, if it's running all the time, it's recording license-plates, which was the original activity that resulted in accusations of big brother behavior. . . -- Corporate spying bothers me more than government spying for some reason. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
