Posted on 01/16/2015 4:34:35 AM PST by TurboZamboni
It's a battle between privacy advocates and police. Two bills regarding the controversial license plate readers, also known as LPR's, received a hearing at the State Capitol Thursday afternoon.
"The scanning and storage capabilities of these systems have increased exponentially since they were first implemented," testified Teresa Nelson of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an opponent of storing this data collected by law enforcement. "As this technology improves and costs go down we're going to see LPR systems reach a point where they're deployed on every street corner and capable of scanning every vehicle."
Republican Senator Branden Petersen, R-Andover, authored a bill that would still allow the data to be collected, but not retained by law enforcement. Another bill from DFL Senator Ron Latz would allow the data to be retained for up to 90 days.
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A more common use of LPR is in the private sector, specifically the repo business. I’m a fan of the Reponut on YouTube. He has his own LPR system to skip trace vehicles parked or driving in public view. Having an effective asset recovery system lowers the cost of secured auto loans for everyone. I don’t see how such a system, used by private citizens, can be outlawed without outlawing photography on public or simply writing down on paper the license plates, date/time and location of cars. There is no right to privacy in the public space.
I saw a repo guy with one of those. He snagged a car from the parking lot at work.
” I’m a fan of the Reponut on YouTube.”
I’ve watched a bunch of his videos, he’s really set up with the mobile office thing. I can’t believe the attitude of the people he repos from though. They seem to think it’s their property even when they don’t pay for it.
bttt
People complain about the thought of gov’t installing GPS/etc. to monitor ‘miles driven’. It this any different?
Is it not the same scenario as:
Time-stamp each photo of the license around town, calculate mileage, pay $$ to gov’t coffers.
Of course, these are the same gov’t ‘brainiacs’ whom would would use the system to track down ‘dead-beat’ parents, overdue library books, etc. but NOT when it comes to illegals (uninsured, non-licensed...)
A few weeks ago I saw a small compact car with an LPR on each corner coming out of a parking lot. Didn’t see the license plates so don’t know if it was any kind of official vehicle.
“I don’t see how such a system, used by private citizens, can be outlawed without outlawing photography on public or simply writing down on paper the license plates, date/time and location of cars. There is no right to privacy in the public space.”
So you wouldn’t have a problem if Google bought 10,000 cars, for example, put license plate readers on them, parked them legally in key locations, and posted a searchable database by license plate that included every car that went by that anyone could search?
I would.
“Is it not the same scenario as:
Time-stamp each photo of the license around town, calculate mileage, pay $$ to gov’t coffers.”
That is the next step, once enough cameras are deployed and linked.
The same police chiefs pushing for expanding this probably oppose citizens recording all police stops.
Yep, there hasn’t been a law, that I can think of, where gov’t creep hasn’t happened: seat belt, anti-smoking, income tax. Hell, I’m still waiting for the ‘we’ll go through each Law/regulation and remove...” B.S. (every election cycle)
NEVER let ‘em begin and nip that ‘issue’.
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