Sure, plate readers and cameras solved THIS crime. Still, how many millions of cars drove by and were catalogued to catch this one criminal, and what is all of that trace data being used for?
Using security camera footage from the apartment and nearby businesses, the detective determined Sterns’s Lincoln left the Venetian Bay Village apartments on Feb. 26 at 7:40 a.m. and then returned around 10:14 a.m.
Sterns’ vehicle left the apartment complex again at 11:03 a.m. and returned 53 minutes later, records show.
The Lincoln left the apartment a third time around 12:44 p.m. and travelled east along U.S. 192 towards St. Cloud where it was photographed by traffic cameras…
At 1:16 p.m., a security camera at a charter school captured video of a car with a similar color, style and size driving southbound on Old Hickory Tree Road.
The same vehicle was recorded heading northbound on Old Hickory Tree Road around 2:11 p.m., records show, before returning to the apartment at 2:43 p.m.
Tracked by at least half a dozen cameras and several plate readers. How much data do they have on YOU?
3 Comments
nones · July 14, 2024 at 5:18 am
There is nowhere to hide. In my coastal Florida town there are more than 100 cameras watching, watching, watching…even some trash receptacles (mobile) with built in cameras. Highway cameras. hajimart cameras, grocery store, Ace hardware, doorbell cameras, everywhere! The surveillance state is alive and well.
Boneman · July 14, 2024 at 6:34 am
Add to that the plethora of tracking info that the vehicle backfeeds the manufacturer and Bob’s your Uncle.
Add to THAT… smartphone?
And to a lesser extent… SUNPASS? Easy PASS?
I have a link that deals with how to reach out to car manufacturer’s to mitigate their part but would not just post it sans an invitation to do so.
I do know that there are various “Filters” that one can procure to put over the license plate that would prevent it being photographed but with the advent of toll-by-plate the illegality of THAT is probably being well enforced these days.
Ponder this: Jump in a time machine and go back to say… 1975. Randomly tell anyone behind the wheel of a car that all of the aforementioned on the list will be foisted upon him TOMORROW and he would demonstratively and justifiably shit a wolverine on the spot.
Incremental degradation…. herding sheeple since time out of mind.
Carrie · July 14, 2024 at 6:38 am
An excellent reminder, as we all enter a Brave New World of “before” and “after” the “unaliving attempt” yesterday.
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