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Now I'm waiting for the story about how they are vacuuming up the output of all those license plate readers.

Meaning, there is no current such story I'm aware of. But I'm certain it's being worked on. And if not by them, directly, that they are ensuring they have a feed from/to the resulting system.

We encounter little in the way of stories about all this data collection, that demonstrates these agencies' claimed restraint. At this point, you pretty much have to figure, if and when they can, they will.

P.S. Think that "domestic" jurisdiction will stop them? I'll just remind you, among other things, of the stories about just how much of the U.S. can be interpreted as being withing 100 miles of an international border. The CPB's jurisdiction within that territory, per reported documents. And the CPB's "need" for data analysis of people transiting its... "system".

I'm just speculating... But so far, it seems almost no speculation has been too outlandish to be eventually realized.




Federal funds for license plate readers are granted on the basis of data sharing.

https://www.aclu.org/files/FilesPDFs/ALPR/new-jersey/alprpra...

See the 2nd page, 2nd to last bullet point.


Well, there's that one alleged program with the name "Perfect Citizen" which seems to touch upon using the power grid as backbone SIGINT & data transport infrastructure:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/23/2119225/nsa-targetin...

https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/08/1449254/us-plans-cybe...

These are dated as old as 2010-ish...


im guessing will prob just piggy-back on the system that tracks the rfid chips in your tires



Seems like this was de-bunked reading the comments [1], the system would have to be incredibly huge considering the RFID tag inside the tire is only a few inches (so it is not generating a very far field - the 20 feet seems incredibly far for such a small tag).

On top of that it would be far easier to just track the giant visible license plate since we already have that technology available.

The destroying with a camera flash is legit (not because of the flash but because of what seems to be caused by capacitors in the device - light reading on this so I may not be correct) however many users point out why read that when there are much easier ways to track a vehicle where-a-bouts.

Interesting and disturbing however much more complex then just OCR!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3kl3e9/which_manuf...


had just been assuming the readers were embedded in strips laid under the roadway :/




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