Technology giving DPS more power to spy on us

This is really creepy!

Not only is it necessary to consider the ideas in this article, it is time to get stupid laws, which have not worked and never will, except to further punish the poor for what many do, off the books.

....and for those of us who say that we don't care because we never, ever break the law; except, of course, when we drive the usual 5 mph over the speed limit while on the highway, yield at very familiar intersections, where the sign states clearly to STOP or imploy any otherdriving habits we have, which are technically against the law, but not unsafe, at the time we do them, think about this: What is to stop the police from selling the data to corporate insurance companies.

I imagine this scenario: You have an accident and it's your fault, technically. (It can and does happen to the best of us) You call your insurance agent and tell him/her what happened. Later, you get call back, informing you that your accident will not be covered, because, you have a habit of law-breaking where the accident occurred.

Welcome to the future! A uniquely American fascism..........

Technology giving DPS more power to spy on us www.azstarnet.com ®:

The Arizona Department of Public Safety has a new law-enforcement tool: a car-mounted license-plate scanner. Similar to a radar gun, it reads the license plates of moving or parked cars — 250 or more per hour — and links with remote police databases, immediately providing information about the car and owner.

On the face of it, this is nothing new. Police have always been able to run a license plate. The difference is they would do it manually, and that limited its use. It simply wasn't feasible for police to run the plates of every car in a parking garage or every car that passed through an intersection. What's different isn't the police tactic, but the efficiency of the process.