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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. This is what police do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once you create "police" as part of your "state" apparatus, you're doomed. This is what "police" do -- catalog and control the people. And create and maintain "disorder" as a way of justifying their own existence and expanding their numbers and influence.

    There's no "good police"; the concept is an oxymoron.

    So when police are doing what police do, it's not news. It's not worthy of discussion. Citizens putting together a ballot initiative to abolish the police (including their unions), now that might be interesting. But inane details of police SOP... not so much.

  2. Re:Slashdot hypocrisy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
    Yes we can, and should. One I party is a Citizen the other party is the State. We have the right to demand the State behaves better than Citizens.