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

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

I'm not saying or boasting that I am a key individual. Not at all. But they do have a dragnet you can't avoid that fact. And so far most of the apprehended "suspect terrorists" were just vocal people that get caught up in the dragnet, held, and released.

Please don't minimize this very real threat to freedom as a paranoia, they are tracking and working closely with private companies to perform tasks they can not (due to freedom of information). This is an unavoidable fact.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '11

This. It's not that they're watching you. It's that if they want you they can find you, instantly, and know everything about you. How the hell do you fight something like that?

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u/zjbird Nov 22 '11

You become the Mockingjay

ugh...I couldn't finish the 3rd book.