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wraith808:


Automatic license plate readers are the most widespread location tracking technology you’ve probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of every passing car, recording their plate numbers, times, and locations. At first the captured plate data was used just to check against lists of cars law enforcement hoped to locate for various reasons (to act on arrest warrants, find stolen cars, etc.). But increasingly, all of this data is being fed into massive databases that contain the location information of many millions of innocent Americans stretching back for months or even years.

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More at (link via Gizmodo).

Shades:
In the Netherlands there was (or still is) a club called: the Tuf-tuf club. They were always (creatively) destroying traffic camera's wherever they could find them and making (funny) pictures of the act.

There is still a Youtube video about this club... (Jeremy Clarkson from the show 'Top Gear' does the interview).

40hz:
In the Netherlands there was (or still is) a club called: the Tuf-tuf club. They were always (creatively) destroying traffic camera's wherever they could find them and making (funny) pictures of the act.

There is still a Youtube video about this club... (Jeremy Clarkson from the show 'Top Gear' does the interview).

-Shades (July 17, 2013, 09:06 PM)
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The stakes would be considerably higher over here. These days you'd probably be charged with terrorism for busting one of those scanners.

But that's today. If you did it back in the USA of the 70s, the formal charge would most likely be nothing more than willful destruction of municipal property or vandalism.


How the times have changed... :-\

4wd:
UK has used them for years to automatically check whether the vehicle is registered, roadworthy, and insured, (all three are required before you can legally drive it on a public road, providing you have a license also).

The only thing they have to do is not delete the data, I'm surprised this is 'new' news.

Renegade:
There are IR or UV lights that foil/blind camera sensors. Their light is invisible to the human eye. One only need to set up a small array around your license plate to avoid detection. The trick then would be to have them concealed well enough that your average traffic cop wouldn't see them, that is if he understood what they were.

For non-optical imaging technologies, you'd need a different approach. (e.g. radar scattering)

Do a search on YouTube as there are some decent informational and instructional videos on the topic there. It helps to actually "see" what's happening there.

The stakes would be considerably higher over here. These days you'd probably be charged with terrorism for busting one of those scanners.
-40hz (July 17, 2013, 09:20 PM)
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While true, if you sort of step back from the situation and then look at it again, it's pretty much hysterically funny. :D

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