> License Plate Scanners Geesh... Its already here! Thats scary.
What ever happened to "probable cause"? Who is it going to be left up to to define "suspicious"? That is Harrassment ready to happen. I was all fine with the "1 unit per station" to encourage use for a sole purpose, such as identifying cars, when it snowed. The scary part was the closing statement " we want to verify the return on investment before buying more". Which infers measurment on city's financial gain, not public good. The truth is... A license plate scanner, is no different than what is done already manualy. If an officer notices something suspicious, they call it in, and wait for a response. The major difference is, the old way takes time and effort, and therefore the officer thinks twice before prematurely harassing a driver, and only calls it in, if there is a legitimate concern to call it in and verify the plate. The problem now is... its just to easy. It will likely encourage abuse. With that said, I'll close by saying.... I'd rather see Police Officier's with scanners, than Street light poles. Atleast then there is some human intervention and descretion, to justify a scan. And I'd like to think that we can trust our local Police Officer's to use them with good intent, to protect apposed to harrass. And that consumers will do their best to be lawful. I'm not sure what bothers me more... Invasion of privacy issues, or if I just don't like law inforcement automated by robots. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <wi...@oregonfast.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Big Brother's coming... > Tom DeReggi wrote: >> Next thing you know, in real time, every time you pass a traffic light, >> they'll also be checking instant verification on.... >> > or.... > > License Plate Scanners > > > > > http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/02/09/news/news01.txt > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
