Comment Re:too late (Score 2) 131
My little village has had ALR's on police cars parked in the village, outside the PD, for years.
The problem is not the reading, but the recording. If the ALR is on the police car, and it immediately beeps when a car drives by that is registered to someone wanted by the police, that is one thing. But recording and indefinitely storing a photo of every passing car is something else entirely.
Anyone could do this, if not now, certainly in ten years. There is really nothing preventing a smartphone in a GPS mount from doing this, though I can't think of any benefit to someone doing it.
I don't understand the problem. Maybe I will someday, because there doesn't seem to be a practical way to avoid this. It's like taking pictures or video in public. Is the answer to have maximum data retention laws? That apply to every level of government... only?