Comment by zulux
3 days ago
If a single car manufacturer decides to capture license plate data from their customers ' cars' cameras, then we're back where we started.
3 days ago
If a single car manufacturer decides to capture license plate data from their customers ' cars' cameras, then we're back where we started.
Many states already ban the private collection of license plate data.
Which states are those? I'd like to read the statutes.
https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/automated-...
A friend entertained the idea of a startup focused on a social dashcam site, where users can upload clips of bad drivers tagged with their license plate number, and smart dashcams can alert to bad drivers in real time. They got as far as asking a lawyer before it fell apart.
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There's a nice list here with references to statutes: https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/automated-...
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I did not know that. I do wish I lived in one.
One just needs to store personal data on license plates then. Handy.
Not at all, even if the data collection is exactly the same. "Where the authority comes from" matters a lot, probably much more than the actual collection itself.
Strongly disagree. The existence of such a collection is a loaded gun for police abuse. It doesn't even require mission creep; simply sifting through the ream of data under an actual warrant "coincidentally" looking for a different POI is going to happen.