Posted on 07/17/2013 7:39:27 AM PDT by don-o
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.
Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a study published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, uploading that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or years, sometimes indefinitely.
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I love it! Hope they’re targeting politicians.
“but I don’t know how a camera using ambient light can be blocked if a normal person can see it.”
It’s polarized at an angle. An officer at ground level can see it. A camera “up high” gets a blank screen.
The law (in NM, anyway) is that it has to be visible by the naked eye 150 feet away. This, in no way, effects that.
I always knew the government was doing much more than it would admit.
I particularly resent the sneaky way they do it. Reflective plates were introduced a few years ago. They said they would save lives. I never believed that for 1 minute. Years later they are automatically scanning ALL plates whenever they pass ANY police car. Never told us.
Why not do the honest thing and just tell us?
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/16/5571548/privacy-group-warns-against-california.html#mi_rss=Latest%20News
I feeeeel so much safer now..
Disconnect the antenna
Disconnect the antenna
Where and how. Do I have to tear the dash and headliner apart?
Coach would not approve of you losing your precious bodily fluids before the sports.
See my previous. I doubt it worked, but it’s the thought that counts.
Call OnStar and cancel.. Then replace the OnStar rearview mirror with a normal one or they’ll still be able to listen in and track you.
There is also a laser emitor that you can mount by the plate that contiuoulsy generates really bright light not visible to the naked eye but that obscures the plates to cameras.
This is legal in all 50 states (while a cover is not).
Several years ago I was called for jury duty. One of the men waiting in the courtroom was an investigator for the DA. (I have known the DA since childhood, he was a neighbor)
In his conversation with another waiting juror the redlight camera’s were mentioned. I stated that they were not about tickets, but about recording license plate numbers. You should have seen the shock on his face that I had figured it out.
It was easy to figure out. The camera’s had been there for years and I had never heard of a single person getting a ticket. So my conclusion is substantiated. hee hee hee
Hate to break it to you, but the article is about taking pictures of your '77.
Tyrants tell their victims? I think not.
OnStar is canceled. The antenna is on the roof. Is all the electronics in the rearview mirror? GM tracked me long after onstar was canceled and sent me service advertisements as I hit the mileage marks.
This is a personal version of the camera blinder I’ve seen on cars.
http://www.slashgear.com/surveillance-cam-blinder-2010369/
Invisible to the naked eye.
AND, the tracking from cell phones is MUCH MUCH worse.
That data literally “bells the cat”.
It works both ways. I record as I drive, out the front and left side mirror. Someday it may save my bacon. Indeed, it may already have.
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