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Re: EZ Pass and the fast lane ....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Mon Jul 12 13:46:58 2004
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:14:18 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Amir Herzberg <herzbea@macs.biu.ac.il>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Amir Herzberg wrote:
> So I think this observation about EZ Pass is probably true, but for some=
=20
> time ago; with current technology, reading license plates is possible=20
> (which, I guess, has some alarming privacy implications...).
While Toll Collect (the german system) isn't yet operational, the license
plate realtime OCR part is. It does read license plates in realtime via vid=
eo
from overhead bridges, no slowing down necessary.
The police is very interested to keep that part of the infrastructure
operational, for obvious reasons. Currently, all non-truck license plates a=
re
discarded, but it's clear enough theres demand for realtime tracing of sele=
ct
and movement profiles for the masses, for data mining.
--=20
Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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