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Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida

Posted by timothy on from the remember-to-smile-and-wave dept.

An anonymous reader submits "The Florida Times Union is running a story about the city of Manalapan putting up cameras and an automatic optical recognition system to check the license plates of every car to drive through town. As usual the article spins the system as something positive to battle crime. Just one step close to Eric Arthur Blair's vision of 1984."

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  1. Re:You mean like in Singapore? by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Oh no! They can track my movements!" You're out in public; any moron can track your movements if they really want to. Would you rather a law be passed where everyone must be blind folded and wearing ear plugs before going out into public so as to not violate anyone's right to privacy?

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  2. No, no, no, no, hell no! by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck off already. When you're in public.... YOU'RE IN PUBLIC!

    Stop posting these fucking articles already. They're retarded.

    If anything why not concentrate on what a WASTE OF MONEY such projects turn out to be. They're certainly not a violation of your privacy as you are in PUBLIC when they observe you.

    People like the /. editors and the article submitter are why legitimate claims against such systems do not get the attention they deserve.

    Tom

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  3. Re:beat the system by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Troll

    So anytime I look at your license plate I'm infringing your liberties?

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  4. Re:beat the system by black+mariah · · Score: 1, Troll

    *yawn* And what exactly do you think they'd do with that information? Please, no psycho-paranoid tinfoil theories either. "OH SHIT! They know which way I take to work!"

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  5. Re:ONE good thing by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Troll

    our software allowed all the police officers in Utah

    Ah, the state where it's illegal for an unmarried man and woman to live together, spitting on the very idea of individual rights. Good choice that, using Utah as an example of benevolent government.

    Max

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