Automatic License Plate Readers, ALPR coming to a P.D. near you. Options

[gandalf_025]

A while back,after passing through a local speed trap.. I had
a local cop pull me over. I knew I hadn't been speeding and
I had my seat belt on.. So I had no idea what he wanted ?

He walked up to my door and asked for me by name..
Which surprised me a little. I said yeah, that's me.
Then he told me I was driving with an expired Drivers License.

I told him that was ridiculous.. Then remembered my birthday had
been the month before and sure enough license expired on my birthday.
Massachusetts doesn't send renewal forms in the mail anymore..

I asked him how he knew my license was expired and he told me his cruiser
has automatic license plate reader computers on board and
flagged my truck as I drove by.
The system runs in the background and while he is playing with the radar,
the car runs every plate that passes by in both directions and alerts him to
anything interesting it finds in real time.

He was nice enough.. and I was lucky my wife was with me and her license was OK.
He made her get in the drivers seat after checking her license
and the registration and let me go home.
He said that if I had been alone he would have had to tow the
truck and leave me standing on the side of the road.

That's technology for you

link to info..

https://www.privacysos.org/technologies_of_control/ALPR

[DBCooper]

We cause the problem ourselves. Terrorists check in on an airline and kill everyone so we want surveillance in place to prevent anything like that from happening again. And we're on. Edward Snowden leaks that the feds are conducting that surveillance and we get all hissy about our "loss of privacy". And we're off. But then a bomber kills and maims a lot of people in Boston and we all want to know why our government isn't tracking those potential terrorists to prevent that from happening again. And we're on again. Then a cop with a licence plate scanner.... and so on and so on. What do you do? The horns of a dilemma.

For good order's sake I usually sign my credit card authorizations as "Popeye". Sometimes as "Superman" when I'm feeling it, other times as "Robert Redford" when I think that cutie behind me in line might see, other times with a squiggle and an oval that looks like a sperm. No one seems all that interested. Anyone who's surveilling me is an idiot and deserves what they get.

[Porschef]

We cause the problem ourselves. Terrorists check in on an airline and kill everyone so we want surveillance in place to prevent anything like that from happening again. And we're on. Edward Snowden leaks that the feds are conducting that surveillance and we get all hissy about our "loss of privacy". And we're off. But then a bomber kills and maims a lot of people in Boston and we all want to know why our government isn't tracking those potential terrorists to prevent that from happening again. And we're on again. Then a cop with a licence plate scanner.... and so on and so on. What do you do? The horns of a dilemma.

For good order's sake I usually sign my credit card authorizations as "Popeye". Sometimes as "Superman" when I'm feeling it, other times as "Robert Redford" when I think that cutie behind me in line might see, other times with a squiggle and an oval that looks like a sperm. No one seems all that interested. Anyone who's surveilling me is an idiot and deserves what they get.

True dat. I've signed those with three X's and a squinty drunk face (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) (kinda like the one gettin' the chair here) and it goes unnoticed.

We can't have it all.