[Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS

[Clegg, Andrew W.]

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From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Kitchener
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:55 PM
To: Alan Henney; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS


Damn, I didn't know "they" had fixed scanners - thought they were all mobile.

*Red light cameras
*Speed Cameras
*License Plate Cameras
*Electronic Toll Collection
*TV surveillance in malls and at bus stops
*Laser speed enforcement
*Global Positioning that's accurate to about three feet
*Telescreens on and blasting in public areas
*Commercials in the "background" "music" in stores
*Metro "spot checks"
*DNA evidence
*Full body scans
*No Such Agency

Ain't it a wonderful world we live in?

Circa "1984" - My conscience is clear, but tell me Big Brother isn't watching / listening.

The Land of the Monitored and the Home of the Watched.  :(

Denizen, Airstrip One, Oceania



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> From: alan at henney.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:43 -0500
> Subject: [Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS
>
>
> The Baltimore Sun
>
> December 27, 2010 Monday
>
> LICENSE PLATE READERS PUT EYES ON ROADS, STIR PRIVACY CONCERNS; THE CAMERAS, NOW IN USE IN EVERY U.S. STATE, SCAN ALL TAGS AND RUN THEM THROUGH CRIME DATABASES. SOME FEAR IT'S AN EASY WAY TO KEEP TABS ON THE INNOCENT AS WELL AS THE GUILTY.

>
> WASHINGTON -- Just after midnight on Oct. 26, the stolen Jeep Cherokee of a university professor who was found slain the previous morning passed a camera mounted on a pole. It took the automatic camera less than a second to scan and process the license plate number, discover it in a database and send out an alert to police cruisers.
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> A detective spotted the vehicle and gave chase, leading to the arrest near downtown Washington of the 18-year-old driver, who is being held in nearby Montgomery County, Md., on auto theft charges and is considered "a person of interest" in the homicide, police said.

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