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Another argument against red light cameras: privacy [priv]
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:28:09 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Jingoism: The New argument against camera enforcement Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:32:47 -0500 From: Richard Diamond <me () richard org> To: declan () well comNobody seems to care that cities like Chicago hang on to red light camera video footage for 5 months or more and is willing to send it to anyone claiming to be a reporter. Perhaps instead they'll care that the camera fines are not reinvested in making our roads safer and better. In fact, a majority of this money is going straight into vegemite sandwiches and white pointer.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/01/193.asp Chicago story: http://www.suntimes.com/output/brown/cst-nws-brown22.html _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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