Minneapolis Police Catalog License Plates and Location Data 289
tripleevenfall writes "The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Minneapolis police used automated scanning technology to log location data for over 800,000 license plates in June alone, with 4.9 million scans having taken place this year. The data includes the date, time, and location where the plate was seen. Worse, it appears this data is compiled and stored for up to a year and is disclosed to anyone who asks for it."
Nice bias, burying legitimate usage instances (Score:3, Informative)
for comparing records against stolen vehicle, missing persons, wanted criminals, and revoked license reports.
Re:How to fix this (Score:4, Informative)
Relevant Seattle Police Case (Score:5, Informative)
The Seattle Police recently lost a lawsuit concerning access to Dash Cam video and related information about retention...
See here: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=40238
Re:Log the Minneapolis Police (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, in Minnesota, you can be charged with a felony for giving people any warning of an upcoming speed trap
Citation needed or GTFO.
Every time someone decides to fight stuff like that, especially "the flashing of headlights is a felony" bullshit, it gets struck down as unconstitutional.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-23/news/31829713_1_ryan-kintner-speed-trap-free-speech [nydailynews.com]
Legislatures can keep passing these laws, and they can keep getting struck down. If you get hit by one of these laws, fight it.
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BMO
Re:Lawsuit (Score:4, Informative)
How about all of you go out and conscript somebody for office.
That system is known as Demarchy [wikipedia.org].