License plate scanning cameras spread across U.

[new_wine]

Got a cell phone and a credit card or debit card?

They can find you.

They can find and track you in many ways. They have online databases of your property if you own land. And these are almost always public record that can be searched. Online postings of anything like your phone number or emails go on for years. Ever posted something to sell or buy, we could probably find more info.

Your area code shows your region. Your exchange (first three numbers after the area code) can drill down to city and district of a city.

You use social media, you are probably easier to find. Own a business, each state has your record publicly available. IN a corporation as partner, treasurer, etc. you are there. Ever convicted of a crime, yep you are searchable.

Face it anyone can be found if they really try hard enough.

1984, here we come!

These plate scanners can be tapped into any database they have, with criteria being set that we have no say in, or knowledge of.

Now, while some will say this helps people catch the bad guys, I say at what cost to our liberty, anonymity, privacy and autonomy.

These cameras will be installed in more and more ways, so that eventually we'll be monitored by the "eye in the sky" wherever we go.

Fortunately, there are ways around this tech.

 

[Goodtry]

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy against this:

"That much information in one place makes it easy to "connect the dots" and track where a vehicle has been, revealing whether it stopped "at the opera or a strip club," Tien said."

By spying in this manner, the government could decipher patterns and habits from monitoring your isolated movements, things that would not happen in public otherwise.

And the reason for the government would care enough to install million-dollar camera systems to track whether I go to the strip club or the opera would be?

 

[acropolis]

Valuing privacy is a valid position, but there is almost always a trade-off between privacy and crime. If they can't track you, then they can't track anyone, which makes life easier for fugitives and terrorists, if you're concerned about thing like that. It can't be both ways at once.

 

[MichaelHelp]

When i drive on a public road anyone can see my license plate. If i were to cover up my license plate i would get a ticket. If you don't believe me try and see, or make your own private roads then you can govern them by your own set of rules.

 

[variant]

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy against this:

"That much information in one place makes it easy to "connect the dots" and track where a vehicle has been, revealing whether it stopped "at the opera or a strip club," Tien said."

By spying in this manner, the government could decipher patterns and habits from monitoring your isolated movements, things that would not happen in public otherwise.

They could do that by following you around too, but it would just take more manpower.

So, do you have the right not to be investigated by the police? What is private about which strip clubs you go to anyway?