Big Brother's Got Wheels

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[Arleigh]

"AutoVu introduces AutoFund, the world's first Mobile License Plate Recognition system, designed to read license plates from a moving vehicle. It can read virtually any plate - up to 1,000 per hour - and store all the information...GPS for reliable vehicle location...Many law enforcement applications are possible with this system."

[Arleigh]

I'm assuming the data collected would be small - a few bytes for tag number, time and GPS coordinate. Easy to store and search. In my community, it is hard to drive for any distance without passing a police car. The police could build a database of daily vehicle activity with these things. So if you get on the government's naughty list, they can not only follow you from that point forward, but they can go back through their databanks and re-create your past driving activities.

[serinde]

Well, at least this contraption isn't injected under your skin! Not much difference, though.

[backhoe]

Just lovely- say "hi!" to Police State 2002....

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[marktwain]

The feds have been pushing the states to mount cameras on all freeway overpasses so that they can keep track of vehicles location in a license plate data base. This software makes that a near certainty.

[backhoe]

Exactly- I participated in the futile fight to keep thumbprints off the Georgia DL. We were promised by the State Patrol & various shills in the Department of Public Safety that these prints "would never be used for any other purpose."

A few months after the law passed, we learned the prints were "being compiled into an anti-terrorist database." Strictly for the public's own good, of course.

A little kicker? First time I got a new DL, they took my thumbprints.... last time, index fingers. Guess they are getting a full set, one pair at a time....

But I guess it's "for the chulren's safety" or some other nebulous but noble and unquestionable cause....

[Teacher317]

Many law enforcement applications are possible with this system."

Here's one (Robot cameras 'will predict crimes before they happen')

Here's a much scarier one (PreCrime: Citizens for a murder free world)