Domestic spy drones and license plate reading cameras.

[bronzeage]

There is a corporation in my city which is trying to peddle a special security camera and computer system which can read and record the license plates of every car which passes the camera. We have a lot of single entry and exit housing subdivisions (read that as middle to upper middle class). The camera would record every car which enters and compare it to a list of residents. All plates are compared to a law enforcement database of "plates of interest."

I've seen a lot of talk about domestic spy drones around here. Is a license plate reading camera, which is wired directly to the police, any different?

 

[CHNOPS]

This is going to get a lot of cheating married people in trouble.

 

[hogjack]

One has a much better air-to-surface targeting program.

Guess which?

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

I refuse store loyalty cards because I don't want big brother to know that I eat oysters in May. Okay?

 

[chillywilly2]

I refuse store loyalty cards because I don't want big brother to know that I eat oysters in May. Okay?

You too eh...I use cash as much as possible.

This Christmas I was purchasing a pair of earings.
The store was asking for address, name, all kinds of crap.
I asked why.
The old girl says its for their customer records.
I told her to keep the earings and walked out.

I will not give out my information that they collect and make money off of for a couple of lousy points.

 

[koalabear]

You too eh...I use cash as much as possible.

This Christmas I was purchasing a pair of earings.
The store was asking for address, name, all kinds of crap.
I asked why.
The old girl says its for their customer records.
I told her to keep the earings and walked out.

I will not give out my information that they collect and make money off of for a couple of lousy points.

Phone number please.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

You too eh...I use cash as much as possible.

This Christmas I was purchasing a pair of earings.
The store was asking for address, name, all kinds of crap.
I asked why.
The old girl says its for their customer records.
I told her to keep the earings and walked out.

I will not give out my information that they collect and make money off of for a couple of lousy points.

So that's what happened to my Christmas present, huh?

 

[chillywilly2]

Phone number please.

the looks I get when I say...No...Its like I insulted them personally...sorry, I don't want to participate in your corporate BS, I just want to buy a box of screws

 

[bronzeage]

This is going to get a lot of cheating married people in trouble.

That was my first thought. I predict a booming business in reflective license plate covers.

 

[chillywilly2]

So that's what happened to my Christmas present, huh?

Pretty much, yeah

 

[chillywilly2]

That was my first thought. I predict a booming business in reflective license plate covers.

So many people just don't care that they are being watched.

It doesn't matter if you aren't breaking the law.


Dam right it matters...keep your nose out of my business

 

[Sean]

There are ANPR cameras all over Britain. There's an industrial estate in Watford that displays your plate in 3 foot high letters as you drive down the road. I was once stopped by armed police in The City of London because someone had used fake plates on a post office robbery in Cheshire and the ANPR had flagged mine.

 

[chillywilly2]

That drove me nuts when I was over there...fucking cameras everywhere...

 

[koalabear]

the looks I get when I say...No...Its like I insulted them personally...sorry, I don't want to participate in your corporate BS, I just want to buy a box of screws

Same shit here, do you have your *name of grocery here* card. no, that's why I don't usually come here you need the stupid card.

 

[CHNOPS]

So many people just don't care that they are being watched.

It doesn't matter if you aren't breaking the law.


Dam right it matters...keep your nose out of my business

You are already being watched. People have had eyes for many millennia now. When those eyes are faulty, technology in the form of refractive glass has assisted for centuries. When those eyes cannot see far enough, technology has assisted in the form of telescopes and binoculars. When those eyes cannot accurately record every detail of a scene or moment, technology has assisted first in the form of pencil and paper, and then in the form of cameras. When those eyes have happened not to be on the scene of a remembered event, other people's eyes/memories have stood in.

The drone thing is humorous technophobia, wrapped in nonsense about a freedom not a single soul has enjoyed in the entire scope of human history.

 

[JohnnySavage]

You are already being watched. People have had eyes for many millennia now. When those eyes are faulty, technology in the form of refractive glass has assisted for centuries. When those eyes cannot see far enough, technology has assisted in the form of telescopes and binoculars. When those eyes cannot accurately record every detail of a scene or moment, technology has assisted first in the form of pencil and paper, and then in the form of cameras. When those eyes have happened not to be on the scene of a remembered event, other people's eyes/memories have stood in.

The drone thing is humorous technophobia, wrapped in nonsense about a freedom not a single soul has enjoyed in the entire scope of human history.

You and your science talk

 

[tactful]

I blame Allen Funt,
and smile.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

This is going to get a lot of cheating married people in trouble.

lol...

 

[CHNOPS]

You and your science talk

^^^^ Drone.

 

[phrodeau]

This is going to get a lot of cheating married people in trouble.

There's still the mailman, the cable guy and the taxi driver.

 

[chillywilly2]

You are already being watched. People have had eyes for many millennia now. When those eyes are faulty, technology in the form of refractive glass has assisted for centuries. When those eyes cannot see far enough, technology has assisted in the form of telescopes and binoculars. When those eyes cannot accurately record every detail of a scene or moment, technology has assisted first in the form of pencil and paper, and then in the form of cameras. When those eyes have happened not to be on the scene of a remembered event, other people's eyes/memories have stood in.

The drone thing is humorous technophobia, wrapped in nonsense about a freedom not a single soul has enjoyed in the entire scope of human history.

Either way, I still try to avoid it as much as possible.

When I want to disapear into the woods, I want to leave as little trace as possible

 

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[SwtGrnApplCandy]

There are ANPR cameras all over Britain. There's an industrial estate in Watford that displays your plate in 3 foot high letters as you drive down the road. I was once stopped by armed police in The City of London because someone had used fake plates on a post office robbery in Cheshire and the ANPR had flagged mine.

When I was married, I had a very common last name. One day I get pulled over, the police officer starts asking me a bunch of questions about my then husband. What is his name, what is his social security number, where do we live... on and on and on. I finally asked if I did something wrong and why was I pull over.

He said it was just a very strange coincident that my then husband had the same last name, same first initial of his first name, one number off on our plates and one number off in his social security number to a man who just robbed a bank.

I would have found it hard to believe but I knew that my ex's soc and my soc is only 2 numbers differ, same sequince of numbers and everything except for the 2nd and 3rd number of the last 4.

Needless to say... I was late and got points against me at work. GRRRRR

 

[oggbashan]

My wife's number plates were stolen from her car.

She reported it to the police but was stopped several times by them because a car with her plates, the same model and colour, had been involved in several burglaries. Since she didn't resemble any of the suspects, not being six feet tall, nor black, and she could produce the crime number from when her plates were stolen, she was on her way within 5 minutes each time.

A couple of weeks later the car bearing the remains of her plates was discovered abandoned after having been set on fire.

Apparently number plate theft is common now that ANPR (Automated Number Plate Recognition) cameras are everywhere.

Unfortunately for one group of young would-be thieves, they stole the plates from an abandoned car because it was the same model and colour as theirs. They were incompetent first offenders when stopped but the ANPR had identified the plates as having been used for several armed bank robberies, so they were surrounded by armed police.

 

[SwtGrnApplCandy]

Unfortunately for one group of young would-be thieves, they stole the plates from an abandoned car because it was the same model and colour as theirs. They were incompetent first offenders when stopped but the ANPR had identified the plates as having been used for several armed bank robberies, so they were surrounded by armed police.

Ha Ha...that is funny... couldn't have happened to nicer criminals!!