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Minneapolis Police Catalog License Plates and Location Data

Posted by timothy on from the land-of-10000-cameras dept.

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."

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  1. Nice bias, burying legitimate usage instances by vandelais · · Score: 2, Informative

    for comparing records against stolen vehicle, missing persons, wanted criminals, and revoked license reports.

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  2. Re:How to fix this by Professr3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only change would be that City Council records are excised automatically from the database, and requesting any such information about City Council members will become a felony.

  3. Relevant Seattle Police Case by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, 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

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  4. Re:Log the Minneapolis Police by bmo · · Score: 1, 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

    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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  5. Re:Lawsuit by MrSteveSD · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about all of you go out and conscript somebody for office.

    That system is known as Demarchy.