Re: UK bomb car tracked by highway license plate scanners

["Don Blumenthal" <dmblumenthal () gmail com>]

On 7/3/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

> Good. Joe Lieberman is right
> (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lieberman-calls-for-wider-use-of-su
> rveillance-cameras-2007-07-01.html) that we should be doing more of this
> sort of thing in the US. Nobody has a right of privacy out in the public
> street. Having cameras there is no more offensive than having policemen
> at the same spot, just more efficient.

There is a difference between right of privacy and indiscriminate
police surveillance. I think that there are a lot of folks who would
suggest that police taking notes on their activities without regard to
whether they were suspicious or not would be quite offensive.

Don

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