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[privacy] Camera monitors for Center City Philly?
From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:01:56 -0500
According to this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/16684768.htm) Congressman and mayoral front-runner Chaka Fattah wants to study a congestion fee charge for traffic in Center City Philadelphia. The article cites a program in London that implements this, and says it does so through London's (in?)famous network of cameras, which record license plates and charge non-resident vehicle owners a fee. Does anyone know about this specific function in London? Do the systems actually parse the numbers off the license plates and automatically charge? I have a hard time believing that could work here; there's so much variety in the plate layouts, what with multiple states, colors, new vehicle plates. And then there's the privacy angle. Fattah didn't say anything about cameras, but obviously something like that would be necessary to implement the charge. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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