wow: Automatic Licence Plate Recognition surveillance in BC

[Christopher Browne]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> However,
> that technology is already used on Hwy 407 and people who have never driven
> on it have been denied licence plate renewal because of errors.

A friend got hit with a ~$1500 bill for charges + penalties when she
hadn't used the road in years...  There seems to be a lot of
convenient errors made, relating to 407...

> Also, many
> people carry a cell phone these days.  How would you feel if the police
> monitored everywhere you went, by tracking your cell phone?

If you have watched the coverage on the murder trial in Kingston where
the four women allegedly either were drowned or "worst driver ever"
(combined with something like the "worst failure to report ever"), the
locations of various peoples' phones were indeed tracked, by the
telcos, and the police acquired those logs to determine where those
phones were during the suspicious periods of time.

If they need to get warrants supported by some reasonble-ish notion of
"reasonable suspicion" to get that data, that doesn't seem too
objectionable.  If they just automatically collect it all into Police
Data Banks, well, that's a different kettle of fish...
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