wow: Automatic Licence Plate Recognition surveillance in BC

[William Park]

Personally, I think there should be cameras everywhere and in HD too,
not those fuzzy useless store cameras.
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William

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:15:55AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 12-02-05 01:20 , D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > <http://www.focusonline.ca/?q=node/312>
> > 
> > This may well apply to us to.
> 
> Bit of an outragefilter there:
> 
>  I think people should be outraged,? commented my fellow researcher
>  McArthur. ?The public needs to know what?s going on...The concept that
>  somebody?s going to record where I was, at a point in time, for no
>  reason, with no probable cause, with no warrant, with no anything...
> 
> It can recognize where your car is/was, at any point in time. Not you.
> Your car. And that's why we have licence plates - great big reflective
> legible things in strictly defined OCR-friendly typefaces - because we
> do not drive by right.
> 
> I predict hilarity ensuing with that 95% accuracy thing, though.
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