Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been

Mon, 2011/07/25 - 15:12 — Alex

Please allow the radio silence, Summer sometimes means holidays!

Slashdot discussed this story last Friday: Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been. This is a topic we mentioned before, including when Australia and the U.S. planned nation-wide car tracking systems.

Their summary: "Massachusetts wants to establish a database with the information gathered by license plate scanners installed in police cars. The scanners will scan license plates of every car the police vehicle passes and transmit that information (along with the location) to a database that will be made available to various government agencies. The data wil be kept indefinitely."

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Fri, 2012/09/21 - 01:09 — Anonymous

Re: Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been

It is really a great innovation. Am so glad to know that such thigs are put into action. Scanning the license plates to know the whereabouts of the car. this concept will reduce the crime also as police has got the records.

Fri, 2012/09/28 - 06:04 — Anonymous

Re: Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been

And here comes a new discussion Tech - Safety vs Privacy - Freedom...

The prospect of the data being kept indefinitely opens the door for possible abuse by government agencies or even hackers.

Strange to see such a development in democratic countries while such records were common practice for past organizations like Stasi and KGB

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