Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation

Re:Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investiga... by talmand on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:44AM (#7436224)

If the only two choices provided are only government gets access or everyone gets access, I'm going to choose everyone.

The choice of no one gets access is apparently not an option.

There are huge benefits to such systems but if the gateway is controlled by a small number of people then most of those benefits are null and most likely the system will prove to not be beneficial at all.

Well, not beneficial to the people outside of the group in control that is.

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Re:Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investiga... by Blackavar on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:53PM (#7436821)

'No one gets access' has never been an option, though. It was impossible once ALPR/ANPR, or even the base technologies - OCR, large databases, and networking - were developed.

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Re:Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investiga... by talmand on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:30PM (#7437981)

The no one gets access option requires that there be no collection in the first place. The technology used to access it doesn't matter that much.

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Re:Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investiga... by Blackavar on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:26PM (#7438934)

How do you propose actually preventing the collection, particularly that by private citizens?

Note, I'm explicitly not talking about making it illegal or other feel-good measures. I'm talking about actually preventing the actions.

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