New submitter cqwww writes "A small folder in Victoria, BC just exposed a massive public traffic surveillance system deployed in Canada. Here's a quote from the article: 'Normally, area police manually key in plate numbers to check untrusting




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doubtful cars in the databases of the Canadian Police hookup Center and ICBC. With [Automatic License Plate Recognition], for $27,000, a police cruiser is mounted with two cameras and unix that can read license plates on both passing and stationary cars. by the book to the vendors, thousands of plates can be read hourly with 95-98 percent accuracy. ... In August 2011, VicPD report and Privacy Manager Debra Taylor called me to explain that, even though VicPD had the ALPR system in one of their cruisers, the ran the system, and I should contact them for any information. "We in reality don’t have a program," Taylor said. "We don’t have any marriage statistics per se." ... A month later, Taylor handed over 600 pages. ... was outwardly only in quintessential to digital information. VicPD had kept 500 pages of written, hard-copy logs of every ALPR hit they’d ever seen.'"

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