4 weeks, 10,000 traffic tickets

In Europe it is called socialism
In America it is called welfare
Obama calls it change

Redlight camera companies call it safety

I try not to comment on the direction society is going...people can do whatever they want. I try to focus on the velocity.

It appears to me: with a camera on ever street corner, 10's of millions voluntarily up-loading personal photos and video to Facebook and MySpace, a cell phone in every pocket - that tracks the users movements, Google archiving our IP address and every search request, blogs and twitter to express our every thought - when we think it, credit cards to record all our purchase choices, warrantless wire taping, and aggragate data mining...

It is not that people have nothing to hide...They have nothing LEFT to hide.

Is it really such a stretch from that mentioned above (which we all do voluntarily) to voluntarily allowing a camera watch you - watch TV - in your living room? (Heck, your cable company already knows which channel you're watching.) What's the big deal? You might not like the idea of being on video in your home...But your kids will likely have no problem with it.

And the world really does belong to them after all.

If sitting on the couch and watching TV (the most common home activity) "in private" is the last baracade of Freedom in the U.S.; then I regret to report to you...the war for "freedom" was lost long ago.

Aw geeze, got one the other month here in sunny CA for $480. (not including traffic school)

Count your blessings OHIA

Jay

If you own a car in Cali, good luck. Everything driving related has skyrocketed including registration fees. Don't be surprised if redlight camera "safety" fees increase also.

In Europe it is called socialism (I don't live there, don't care)
In America it is called welfare (Not on Welfare, should cut it off)
Obama calls it change (Don't look like he's going to get it done)

Redlight camera companies call it safety (Police call it the Law)

So drive safely

Onestep, you have my vote on your proposal! haha

and they say its not about generating money!

This is a bad way to look at it. When laws are set up to maximize profits, they are bad laws and need to be changed. The city is a little less safe now because these cameras actually decrease safety. Thankfully, the good citizens of Heath have put a petition on the ballot to get rid of these thieving cameras. Now we just have to pray that the thieves don't try to interfere with the voting.

correction center is called jail, or the other way.

I understand the way they do are different from places to place, the fundamental issue is, the offense is there. In either cases, the case can be appealed at court.
I feel I prefer "drive thru" to "how can I help u". We are in a hurry, so we are speeding, right?

There are good laws and there are bad laws and some times politicians pass both. Sometimes laws about safety are a bit zealous.
You know electronic checking some times are tweaked for the benefit of the county and be in the spirit of the law bad or good, but sometimes safety is trampled.

This is a huge issue, not just about traffic laws and technology used to enforce these laws, but about the natural right of an individual to exercise free will and to hold a reasonable expectation of privacy. Does the fact that some individuals trade personal aspects of their lives for the convenience of technology mean that they forfeit their expectation of privacy? Are these people fully aware of the implications, one being the near permanence of digital data? Does their exchange imply fully informed consent?

I personally reject the notion that the advance of science will lead inexorably to the total loss of the individual expectation of privacy and the massive erosion of free choice. Despite the expected trajectory of developments in science, the people have a visceral reaction to the technologies of control whether these influences are exhibited by government or by corporations or by their mutual consortium. Look, for instance, where the public stands on behavioral tracking through website cookies: Survey: US residents don't want targeted ads -- http://www.itworld.com/government/79438/survey-us-residents-....

Last I checked the U.S. Constitution was the supreme law of the land. With this in mind, we can take heed of the words of Justice Brandeis in his dissenting opinion in Olmstead v United States when he said:

“The protection guaranteed by the Amendments [the Fourth and Fifth] is much broader in scope [than the protection of property]. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment. And the use, as evidence in a criminal proceeding, of facts ascertained by such intrusion must be deemed a violation of the Fifth”
(Olmstead v United States (277 US 438 [1928] http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/decisions/2009/may09/53opn09.... [check out this reference, it includes mention of GPS]

With the increasing use of data mining by corporations and by government and the knowledge that there have been a number of prominent security breaches involving consumer databases, I do not trust these entities to keep this information secure if left to their own devices. Couple that with the fact that sometimes a company which has suffered a breach doesn’t even notify its customers. If you’ve ever been a victim of identity theft then you should be concerned about corporate and government privacy practices.

And now, there are two revelations that should give you further pause: 1) Researchers have shown that you can be uniquely identified using only three pieces of information: zip code, gender, and birth date. This information can be cross-indexed with other data which includes your name and one of the three shared pieces of information to identify you. And, 2) Researchers have given proof of concept that an individual’s Social Security number can be guessed from publicly available information including simply knowing a person’s birth date.

"Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets...

Researchers: Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07...