An update to yesterday's post about the plan to scan bar codes on OK license plates in an effort to catch uninsured motorists
Public Safety Commissioner Kevin Ward said, "I don’t know of technology that can actually read a bar code from that far away, I am aware of technology that can actually read the car (tag’s) characters. It would be able to decipher those and make a check through the system.”
Duhh!
Ok, now, now that everyone agrees that scanning bar codes is stupid I can be indignant over the Orwellian nature of this plan to put cameras all over the state.
I HATE this idea. Here are some questions I'd like answered:
- Who controls the images collected?
- How long will these images be stored?
- Who has access to these images?
- For what other purposes will these images be used?
- Who will have access to the data stored in the insurance database?
- What information is in this database?
- How much money will the vendor who runs the cameras rake in (because you know it will be administered privately)?
- What metric will be used to gauge the success of this project? Amount of money received, or some indicator of a reduction in uninsured motorists?
- If there is a drastic reduction in uninsured motorists, how will the project be funded?
- Is the company that is likely to get the contract to run these cameras an out of state company?
- Who is handing out the tickets?
- Under what jurisdiction will the tickets be handed out?
- Will the people that get these tickets be able to go to court?
- Will the people that get these tickets be required to go to court?
4 comments:
Your blog called. it would like you to stop going on vacation or being busy or what have you, and start posting more quality posts like this.
your post rate since Nov 11 has slowed, just now picking up again in the past few days...
Oh, and I hate word verification on blog comments.
The mass surveillance system you are referring to isnt just to find uninsured motorists -- that's just the Kool-Aid to get people to accept it.
Here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition
The scanners definitely are Not just for uninsured motorists-And Gov. Henry intends on passing it by executive order on the 23rd of this month.
Look what they have cooked up for us;
Florida, E-ZPass exchanging toll camera data to test license plate based tolls Fri, 2009-08-07
Several toll agencies in Florida and the E-ZPass have begun exchange of camera based data to test the feasibility of levying tolls on one another's license plates in a pilot program.
Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, Kansas etc) will generate a toll bill or violation notice based on their ability to access 'foreign' state motor registry databases.
August 4, 2009
Oklahoma/Texas Pilot Program:
Committee Members: Rick Herrington (lead)David Machamer OTA (lead)
Clayton Howe
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) is waiting for action from NTTA on
responding to the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Mr. David Machamer suggested completing a ‘file swap’ rather than going through the Tax Commission.
Read on;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24350177/Alliance-for-Toll-Interoperability-Meeting-Materials
www.CapitolInvestments.org for more on this issue.
We can't actually afford extra police officers to crack down on this, or the cameras, so you'll just need to take care of that yourself next time you get rear-ended by an uninsured motorist ;-)
I've known two people that have been hit by uninsured motorists (one seriously hurt when rear-ended by a dump truck). In another case it is suspected but the other driver sped off.
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