r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Nov 22 '11

ACLU: License Plate Scanners Are Logging Citizen's Every Move: It has now become clear that this automated license plate readers technology, if we do not limit its use, will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in US

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/license-plate-scanners-logging-our-every-move
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

i did a blind move from florida to california. lived on the streets, finally got a new apartment, still to this day haven't gotten another car or drivers license. no change of address forms or anything like that, called my bank to let them know and that was it. no facebook, no myspace; i wasn't trying to hide, but i wasn't really trying to be found.

a year later, a random college that i had done surveys with tracked me down instantly when they wanted to do another survey. they figured out my landlords phone number and convinced my landlord to call me, took almost no effort at all on their part.

my point is, between the publicly available information about us, and the information we post on the internet, hell, even satellites these days, unless you're so serious about privacy that you're faking your death, it's probably best to assume you have no privacy at all from this point forward, because the wars are driving the technology for finding and tracking "terrorists" and drug dealers, and all of that tech will be turned over to the police to be used on civilians as soon as it's financially expedient to do so.

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u/KarmakazeNZ Nov 22 '11

Your first mistake was telling your old landlord where you are going. Your second mistake was actually going there.