• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Enforcing traffic laws is one thing, but sooner or later they’re going to get hooked up to a central archive and database and be used to create a license-plate-tracking panopticon.

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      1 month ago

      There was a study done about this in the late 90s. With existing analog cameras in New York City police were able to track cars license plates with 90% accuracy. Keep in mind this was pre-GPS, pre-digital processing, and pre-image recognition.

      Just think how much further camera technology, computer software, and image recognition has come since then. Not to mention that your phone and car or GPS enabled and constantly tracking your location.

      This has been here for over 30 years.

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      “Is that a barcode scanner? That can be used by the government to track my purchases!”

      –Burt Gummer (Tremors 2, 1996)

      The government already tracks your car with its GPS transmitter.