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Author Topic: Camera keep track of all cars entering Pensacola Beach  (Read 517 times)

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Camera keep track of all cars entering Pensacola Beach
« on: April 12, 2012, 11:52:12 AM »

Caught on Camera-Florida Car Tags

I instantly thought of the Medina story/thread when I watched this story. The cameras record every license plate that passes beyond the Bob Sikes Bridge toll plaza, but for now they only run data on Florida-based tags. The one person interviewed quipped "...why they think that someone would run from the law would want come to an island".
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Re: Camera keep track of all cars entering Pensacola Beach
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2012, 12:47:52 PM »

alas, I think that is compatible with the Fourth Amendment.  Since you're on public land, it's not like people can't already look at your license plate... but the mass-scale automatization is unnerving to me anyway.
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Re: Camera keep track of all cars entering Pensacola Beach
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2012, 12:58:46 PM »

Agreed on both counts.  I doubt the founding fathers had the technology of 2+ centuries later in mind when they were not-defining "reasonable search".
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Re: Camera keep track of all cars entering Pensacola Beach
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2012, 11:59:18 PM »

Big Brother should not be constitutionally able to be Watching.
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