Big Brother Scary…ALPR-Automatic License Plate Recon
Actually, if you are a law-abiding citizen, you have nothing to worry about.
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Sounds like a good system if it is not abused, but we all know that the initially intended use tends to grow to the point where it has the potential for abuse. Here in IL they passed the mandatory seatbelt law as a secondary ticket, it was sold as it would never become a primary stop offense. As many of you already know they have this wonderful thing called click it or ticket because it is now all police need to pull you over.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:35 amWhy is it that more and more of the world are gaining more and more freedoms while the freest nation in the world continues to lose more and more freedoms?
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May 8th, 2008 at 11:35 amindeed if u are a law abiding citizen u got nothing to woryy about…then again it could be used(im not saying that this WILL happen in america) to search for people who are known to subscribe to an “unwanted” political agenda (not necessarly terorists as we know)…then again soon most of the cars will have lo-jack type GPS system in the cars computer so no matter what u become traceable…main thing is for people to be knowledgeble, and prevent those types of limitations…like W.Churchill said, people deserve the govt that they have
May 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pmMaybe I’m in the minority on this, but I am not concerned with new developments in law-enforcement technology. I don’t break the law (not in public, anyway).
What scares me is the technology in the workplace, and it scares me badly.
When you are at home, your phone cannot be bugged by the cops without a judge giving them permission. When you are at work, that’s not your phone.
When you are at home, your Internet service provider can see what you are watching, but cannot exploit it without becoming vulnerable to a massive lawsuit. When you are at work, your boss can see everything you look at. That’s not your PC.
There are software systems designed to be invisible to everyone but highly trained programmers (buried deep down in DOS) that cost $200 and less that will record every single keystroke and mouseclick you make on your work PC and automatically transport such records to your boss’s computer via mainframe intranet service. You don’t have to save anything. Deleting won’t help. Touch your keyboard and your employer knows.
There was a huge lawsuit involving one of the biggest hotel chains in the country ten or fifteen years ago. They installed fiber-optic cameras in the restrooms that captured “everything.” When the employees brought the chain to court, the hotel said it was monitoring drug abuse (and had records of an employee who was blowing dope…but never fired him). The hotel won.
Coors Beer was lambasted on 60 Minutes for having security patrols that literally jimmied open employees’ car doors in the parking lot to search their ashtrays for joint roaches.
When you’re at work, whatever you say on the phone, type on the computer or do in whatever place you think is private is known to your employer.
You drive a company vehicle? Don’t be surprised to learn that the company has a GPS transponder in the car hidden deep in the chassis and your boss can watch the car’s movements on the Internet. Park your car at a strip joint 2,000 miles away from your office and don’t be shocked when you’re fired Monday morning. It costs $75 per month to monitor a vehicle, updated every 25 seconds. Parents have this installed in their cars to watch where their teenagers drive.
I’m not saying this happens everywhere; I’m just saying that it’s legal, it’s cheap, and if your boss wants to know “the real you,” it’s a piece of cake.
What the cops do does concern me a bit, but not half as much as what my boss is up to.
There are volumes written about how the gov’t may or may not spy on the citizen. What is written on how employers may monitor their places of work wouldn’t make a pamphlet.
Just sayin’.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pmI follow the law so I welcome it.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:53 pmBrian
don’t worry , it will be far to exspensive for the average department to have any ways. half the departments here don’t even have cameras in there squad cars.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:09 pm