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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 days ago

Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…

www.thedrive.com

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Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 days ago
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Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
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A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate readers.
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    It’s kind of insane that the fine for breaking the law goes to a company and not the government.

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      No argument here.

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      It depends on the directionality. Download a crusty old Miley Cyrus MP3 with a virus? Money goes to the RIAA. Huge mega-corp rakes their customers over the coals for years? The government collects the fine and keeps it.

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