Keep in mind that this is only what they are telling you. What else does it do?
Sure, they want to catch criminals. Sure, they want to catch
terrorists.
But mostly they want to know every little detail of what you do and
where you go so they can control you and develop new ways to
fleece you of more money. Like a moving toll booth.
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Why do we need ALPR???
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How free do you want to be?
Uninsured motorists? Sure but here is where the real money is! This is why these devices are so important to the state. With interoperability and ubiquitous cameras, our government can charge us every time our wheels roll if they want.
The system will also be great for all sorts of fines and fees. Really anything that can be attached to your motor vehicle records could be collected through the ALPR system. Rather like the "deadbeat dad" DMV SSN racket. In some states they already use these things to collect back taxes. What are you going to do? Walk? No. This is why state motor vehicle agencies never have a problem with debt. No pay-no drive. No work, no visits, no R and R. We have to have our vehicles!
Oklahoma will be participating in a License Plate Interoperability Pilot Program. Seven to eight tolling authorities will collect and pool all license plate and associated data captured.
"The hubs will centralize accessing databases of vehicles and owner addresses and accounts to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of collecting tolls."
Here are the participating groups;
E-470 CO, Florida Turnpike, MdTA, NTTA, Oklahoma Turnpike, TCA Orange Co CA, Washington DOT. link
It is worth reiterating what I have said about this in the past;
It is not a new manner of charging for tolls that bothers me so much. It is the fact that spy cameras are going to be the method of charging and that the data collected for this purpose will be kept and used for a number of other purposes such as intelligence gathering.
. . .the charging will not likely be limited to simply tolling. Mileage and usage taxes based on zones and time of day, video enabled ticketing and a vast array of other creative revenue enhancement are part and parcel of the ALPR scamera plan.
But you are a law abiding person, right? Why should you worry?
You should worry because these systems track everybody and policing today is not just about catching the criminal. Now it's "predictive policing" and in order to predict what individuals may do in the future, you have to have lots of data on everyone.
Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D who has written a book on where we are fast heading if we don't snap out of our complacency about technological surveillance. He does a great job at showing us the bigger picture.
"Basically what I'm saying is that there's evidence for thinking that we're moving in a direction of a controlled society, a controlled culture. It isn't that we're one hundred percent there, but there are dangerous trends, and if we don't do anything to offset them, then we really will be in some serious trouble." link
Another snippet from Dr. Cohen's writings;
"Unfortunately, the prognosis for the survival of the free world is quite bleak if the stated trends are not stopped very soon. It is the ever constant creep of a culture of control that presents the most insidious danger. As we begin to accept increasingly greater and greater restrictions on our civil liberties, the technology to further abridge these liberties continues to expand and lead the way to even greater abridgements. This process is subtle and we are not likely to notice that our freedom is gone until it is too late, or maybe not even then. In the end, we may consider ourselves a "free" people but have little understanding of what that even means." Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project
Read more here:
https://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/sept-26-2011-oklahoma-begins-the-license-plate-interoperability-hub-pilot/
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