Cameras to read license plates on I-90

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

Come on, this is really starting to sink into heavy grade paranoia guys. The comments about interstate permits and the 1984 stuff is so outrageous it's funny. We are not a communist nation nor will we be (at least under this or next few presidents). I hate to ruin anyones day, but your licence plate is already in a database as being registered under your name (the owner of the car), so all this secret data mining paranoia is just stupid. Look at what this actually is without projecting your own private fears onto it.

You don't see the danger because you haven't experienced the incredible hassle when the government gets a hard-on for you. When some desk jockey misinterprets some (usually erroneous) information. You'd be surprised how much power is wielded by faceless clerks in windowless cubicles. The faces you see, are just doing their job and powerless to alter even obvious mistakes. At minimum, you've got to hire a lawyer.

Think about it, how much information could someone like Google, mine from a series of cameras on the interstates. Now take that power, that data, and sift it for suspicious scenarios.

You think I have too much imagination? I think you underestimate Fearless Fosdick's imagination.
Law enforcement/homeland security types spend their entire day wondering what they don't know. When presented with a system that will give them more information, they'll recognize, seize and milk it, in a New York minute.

I see this as one more can of Crisco on a long downhill run.