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Los Angeles City Council is considering sending "Dear John" letters to the registrants of cars seen in an area of San Fernando described as having a "thriving street prostitution problem". The plan would use automated license plate readers to identify vehicles that stopped in the area. Council member Nury Martinez claims "If you aren't soliciting, you have no reason to worry about finding one of these letters in your mailbox. But if you are, these letters will discourage you from returning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/01/the-age-of-pre-crime-has-arrived/
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The Age of ‘Pre-Crime’ has Arrived
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday December 02 2015, @06:51PM
Privacy matters because laws are neither perfect nor incorruptible. The MAFIAA is only one group that would love to be able to monitor every download, every exchange of information, so they could collect rent for eternity. Another group that would love that is publishers. They wish to hold the education of our children hostage, for money. Education is, after all, very valuable. Police are another group that always seeks more power, taking an amoral and mindless stance that they wish only to be able to better enforce the laws, no matter how horrible those laws may be. Lot of them just don't care about possible unintended consequences. Such as, blackmail.
This stupid idea is ripe for all kinds of abuse. Doesn't matter if you weren't soliciting, just having your license plate number in this database is an accusation that may not be easy to settle. Perhaps the city will ask for a "fee" to cover the expenses of administering the database to remove your info.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @10:36PM
Use of license plate readers by the government should simply be illegal.