New Electronic License Plates Could Be Controlled By DMV, Law Enforcement Agencies

[Jesus Malverde]

Now that Big Brother is all up in your cell phone and your email, why not your car, too?

Under a proposal reportedly being considered in South Carolina, metal license plates could be swapped out for electronic ones that would give the DMV or law enforcement agencies the power to broadcast messages directly onto the back of cars.

Such messages could read "Uninsured" or "Suspended" for people who are driving without insurance, or "Stolen" in cases of auto theft.

"We actually put that wording on the license plate across the top and, depending on how the state wants it, it could be in bright red, and we can actually [have the plate] flashing as it goes down the road," Brian Bannister, the co-founder of Compliance Innovations, the company that developed the technology, told CBS local affiliate WSPA-TV.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/electronic-license-plates_n_3424050.html

[hlthe2b]

1. and a "wee" error in that system could get one killed...

Someone vindictive reporting a car (theirs or not) stolen?
That clerical error that suggests your license is suspended or the car not current on registration?

Exuberant officer wanting to "up his/her quota?" Make a name for themselves?

Yeah, what could go wrong?

[HereSince1628]

17. But, there is no money for expanding medicaid and food assistance...

What went so wrong and when did it go so wrong in America?

[JimDandy]

2. So now tracking every car with a gps signal

is going to be the norm? People better wake up and start saying NO!

[tridim]

4. Chances are your car already has GPS. Multiple GPS's if you carry your smartphone with you.

[JimDandy]

5. License plate gps signals would give the GOVT

real time tracking of your vehicles. That means giving express permission to the government to track your car's every movement and location. They must be salivating over the info they can grab from doing this.

And, after this NSA spying and tracking of our phones, I wouldn't trust any law or rule they enact in order to appease us that we aren't being spied on and tracked in our vehicles.

[tridim]

9. Fight it then, poutrage accomplishes nothing.

This is a proposal, not a law.

It's reasonably safe to assume that no government will ever track any American car with GPS and without a warrant. That is an obvious invasion of privacy, and very few will give express permission to do that.

That said, the Police track cars with warrants and LoJack/GPS every day. A cop found my stolen car once by tracking my LoJack.

[tkmorris]

27. I wouldn't call that "reasonably safe"

After all, the Obama administration and it's justice department is arguing for exactly that. It's possible the USSC may continue to disallow it but I wouldn't exactly bet the ranch on it.

[tridim]

31. The Obama Admin is arguing for direct Goverment access to GPS data in all cars?

That assertion certainly requires a link.

[markiv]

10. duplication of the GPS cell phone in the driver's pocket

wastefull gov spending

[JimDandy]

15. I see what you did there.

The licence plates' GPS signals would actually be worse, though, because the signals would be accessible in real time to the government and WITHOUT a warrant.

[markiv]

21. cell phones are real time too

you think your phone isnt pinging towers as you move along, whether you are on a call or not?

how do you think your phone rings, when you take a flight across country? you really think every single tower in the country rings your phone, every time it rings?

[One_Life_To_Give]

24. But they need a Warrant

To use it criminally against you still requires a court issued warrant. Whereas the data from your state issued transponder is already gov't property and usable against you without further warrant or court order.

[JimDandy]

33. You beat me to it.

[L0oniX]

22. The National Snooping Association will love it.

[Live and Learn]

3. Good gawd, will this never end? nt

[nebenaube]

7. no... it's all down hill from here...

And in a few years (or less), somebody like the Koch Brothers will have unfettered control and access to it.

[markiv]

13. Koch brothers donated to ACLU to oppose PATRIOT Act

therre's plenty you can criticize them for, but blaming them for this stuff is ignorant

http://www.lasocialdiary.com/node/125921

(launching the 2008-2009 season would be Bush era)



Last Tuesday night the New York City Ballet launched its 2008-2009 season with An Opening Night Celebration .........

David Koch has had a prominent social presence.........He and his brother Charles, along with George Soros, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation each contributed $10 million to the ACLU to defeat parts of the USA Patriot Act.

[nebenaube]

14. does he not also fund all the think tanks responsible for producing it? n/t

[markiv]

23. can you directly cite your claim

like i did?

[truebrit71]

6. Why not just mandate chip implants at birth and be done with it...

...jeebus aitch christ on a bike...when will it end???

[JimDandy]

20. LOL... Seriously we are headed there if we don't stop

the government now.

[Nika]

8. The mark of Cain for your car.

Is America special, or what?

[snooper2]

11. Wow, that would be REALLY hard to get around

LOL

[Poll_Blind]

12. Nice, well this will at least get more hackers out of the house and on the road.

Can you imagine how these things could be hacked?



PB

[JimDandy]

18. The possibilities are endless. n/t

[formercia]

28. " But, Officer, his License plate said "Hit Me"."

Much better than a Post-it note slapped on the Back.

[JimDandy]

16. Huge end run around the Court's decision that GPS

tracking of vehicles by law enforcement (the Government) is illegal without a warrant.

[L0oniX]

19. How about an arrest mugshot or "I am speeding right now" or "X-Con"

[Marrah_G]

25. This is getting out of control

[Dawson Leery]

26. "Iowa City to ban red-light cameras, drones, and license plate readers too"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/iowa-city-to-ban-not-only-red-light-cameras-but-drones-license-plate-readers-too/

[Live and Learn]

34. That is wonderful. Too bad it is only 1 city. nt

[Historic NY]

29. Boy imagine hacking them..........

I could see a whole lot of "A$$holes" driving around.

[flamingdem]

30. fine by me

I've experienced the uninsured driver and non-citizen road impact scenario.

It's very dangerous out there especially with drivers who drink on top of the rest.

[lpbk2713]

32. Don't most govts want to at least *look like* they're keeping costs down?

How many times does this brainfart multiply the price of the plain ole vanilla tag?
Add too, the cost of the program to keep all msgs functional and up to date.

[moparlunatic]

35. I have nothing to

hide so it doesn't bother me if it makes us safer than, oh wait sorry wrong thread. It's ok for phone and internet tracking but I draw the line when it comes to my car.

[FSogol]

36. It would be great if you could hack them. So, the clown in his Mom's BMW, who just cut

me off, plate would read, "DOUCHE!"

[HiPointDem]

37. freaking creepy

[cynatnite]

38. I want to be able to give other drivers the finger. n/t