Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 268
Are you kidding? It takes a screwdriver and 5 minutes. Pull up next to an innocent car. Swap it's plates with the plates on your stolen car. Now the innocent car sets off the camera warnings. Repeat daily.
Are you kidding? It takes a screwdriver and 5 minutes. Pull up next to an innocent car. Swap it's plates with the plates on your stolen car. Now the innocent car sets off the camera warnings. Repeat daily.
You have to ask yourself if you really want 100% automated, ubiquitous enforcement of every law in existence. How many laws apply to you right now? You really have no way of knowing.
I've had my plates stolen before. If someone was tracking the criminal who stole my plates and thought they were tracking me, that would be bad for me.
There is a Constitutional right to privacy that extends beyond the 4th Amendment. If it covers having an abortion, wouldn't it cover something that is actually your right to privacy?
I will bet that the information in these database is used to obtain search warrants, and used in criminal prosecutions. And I will bet that the security measures on these insular, home grown database systems is woefully insufficient to ensure that it is real data, and not someone just editing the database to get a bogus warrant.
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