Aug
18
It seems that by 2010, any and all license plates on all vehicles entering the island of Manhattan (I guess they don’t care about the rest of the boroughs?) will have their license plates scanned and compared to a “secret terrorist database”. No other details are given as to how this will work, where this “terrorist database” comes from, how one gets added to, or subtracted from, the database. The Police Commissioner does say that the records are expunged “after 30 days”, but 30 days after what? After the completion of the comparison? After the initial scan? As the reporter points out, this brings NYC (well, one borough, anyway) that much closer to imitating London, the most widely-surveilled city on the planet.
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