This Is What I Have Been Saying!

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You all know my stand on license plate readers, speed cameras, and toll data, which is that the data restricted on who can see the data and how long the data is kept. Well some legislators are asking the same questions.

Oklahoma lawmaker raises questions about warrantless license plate scanner tracking
KFOR
By Amaya Ward
March 24, 2024

Police rely on license plate scanners to capture criminals, but it’s a crime fighting tool at least one Oklahoma lawmaker believes goes too far.

State representative tom Gann said he has two main concerns when it comes to license plate scanner tracking.

“Where is the data and who has access,” said Gann.

This comes after a bill aimed to broaden the surveillance camera activity faced an overwhelming defeat in the senate on Thursday.

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Gann said he’s against people being tracked all the time and questions where the data goes.

“It can be downloaded offsite, it can be downloaded in a different state. We just don’t know,” said Gann.

We can’t put this technology back it the box but we can make sure that states are not tracking their citizens out of to see where they are going. We can make sure that the data is not being used against trans children who are going to treatment out-of-state, or women who go to abortion clinics. We must make sure that the data is not being used by spammers who track people driving in to a stores parking lot.

We cannot put the genie back in the bottle, but we can regulate it.

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