… 86,069 vehicles prompted a “hit” on the hotlist in the last 30 days.
They want people access to list of matches to see if they are list of stolen cars? I’d like to know if my car was listed as stolen. Story says info is not used for any other purpose. Ok. I’m good.
Plate readers work……shocking.
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Plate readers seem to work well in Florida, when the sensor failed to pickup my transponder, toll was billed by the plate reader.
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" Police installed 93 additional cameras in June, as part of an effort to crack down on vehicle theft and other crime in the Mile High City.
The cameras record license plates and vehicle information, which can alert police to vehicles listed on stolen car databases…"
THIS should frighten us all, even those of us who think we aren’t criminals, and we’d NEVER be on the wrong side of the law. The very idea of law enforcement using AI-enabled surveillance camera networks, scanning massive unregulated databases containing personal information, etc. should raise the alarm that we are fast on our way to becoming a police state. Catching suspects may be important, but protecting peoples’ right to basic privacy and ownership of their personal information should be MORE important!
For this reason, I absolutely refuse to drive a vehicle containing remote communication/telemetry features, I don’t use Facebook or other social media websites, I’d never agree to provide a DNA sample to any company or government agency, etc. Avoiding AI-enabled surveillance cameras while out in public is much more difficult, of course.
People need to wake up, and fast, while we still have some civil rights, at least in theory!
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I dunno. I have an Illinois transponder that should work in Florida. A couple years ago went through a toll bridge by ft meyers and have yet to see the charge show up on my account or get a bill in the mail from my plate. Maybe I was driving too fast to get over the thing before I had a panic attack.
It seems the fact that data IS collected is more troubling than what the authorities do with it. Every cop car has scanners that records plate info. You go out in public, ur scanned. Like minority report.
Do you know if the authorities notify the car owners by mail if their license plate is placed in the plate-scanner database?
I can review my toll drives, that day went through 12, four dd not read my transponder, those were billed to my account by the plate readers, same price, so I don’t care.
For BC, do you realize you are on the internet?
Sure, with a screen name, and no picture of my face, or any other identifying information. Do you seriously think I’d post my real name and face, etc. online??!
It’s not AI. It would be created by software engineers, it wolud use non changing pattern matching designed by people, and add license plate numbers to a database. There is nothing about AI, or neural networks, or automated statistics, or language models in license plate readers that I know of.
Now data mining and consolidation of the data from these big databases becomes an issue. Sometimes the databases get leaked, or more often sold to another company. They somewhat try to conceal the real identities of the people in these databases, but if you have access to multiple databases the information can be combined to reveal the real identities of the people. Multiple databases like this can be used for adverising, solving crime, and tracking potential political dissidents.
The location of most people is recorded all the time from the cell phone that they carry with them, so there is often little value to the government in getting information that they already have from license plate scanners and such.
Advertisers don’t have access to the data from phone companies, so they rely on having people install apps on their phones. These apps send location data back to their respective companies. They then sell this information, where it is combined with other similar information to create a reliable history of a person’s location going back a long time. A person might carry multiple phones, but the information from the phones will be combined. There are, or were, so many software engineering jobs out there for data processing.
I think it depends on the authority but seems to me th3 information is stored for 30 days. That allows for incidents to be made known that they would need to identify who was in the area.
I guess like everything else it can be abused. But everyone has their phones that are more intrusive. Of course it helped identify the person at the golf course, taking a picture of the car and the plate. Then the sheriff used the plate scanners to apprehend the guy. Prolly no different than going house to house interviewing people.
I didn’t read the whole story but there was a recent incident where a Leo accessed private vehicle information to I’d a girl. Boys will be boys but he is in a lot of trouble for accessing the data base.
At some point privacy laws are going to need to be updated with all the phones and cameras recording every move someone makes.
That’s rich. If you actually believe you’re completely anonymous posting on the internet… well, it’s naïve at best.
The police have been able to access registration data forever. All they did was remove the human component doing the lookup. Big deal.
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There are millions of fake accounts on social media with fake names and fake pictures or no profile pictures at all… You can do the same, just like on here… lol
I mean I was really surprised to know Twins parents names were Garrett and Precision, still unsure why they named him Twin though…
Don’t go to the grocery store, drug store, library, or DMV then. Well maybe the DMV is frightening enough already.
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Let’s remember, it’s reading your license plate, that thing the state requires you put on your vehicle to identify it. The plate doesn’t even belong to you, it belongs to the state. And it’s being read in a public place, where you went freely, because it was public. People look at each other in public places. Should we all be required to have brain surgery so we won’t remember what we saw in public places, so your privacy won’t be invaded? Let’s not go there.
Story said it got 86,000 “hits”? What did cops do with 86,000 hits? Define a hit. It saw 86k stolen cars?
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Nope. One hit from over 86,000 vehicles. Here is the sentence you refer to:
According to the portal, 86,069 vehicles prompted a “hit” on the hotlist in the last 30 days.
That one hit is a vehicle of interest. It may have been stolen, used to commit a crime or registered to a wanted criminal for instance.
Well true you are in public spaces but the vehicle is still an extension of your private home. The danger is in tracking and maintaining the information on folks that are guilty of nothing.
No problem though unless the checks on power of the executive, in combination with the legislative, and the court system, all cooperate to exceed legitimate public needs. This all happened in minnesota where citizens were ordered to stay home except for necessary travel. Multiple 30 day emergency powers were granted and allowed by the legislature and courts. Many businesses suffered and were met with extreme measures by the courts.
It was a wake up moment on what could happen. As they say the road of good intentions . . .
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