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Mobile parking spy on patrol: Snoop prompts privacy rant
By Dave Wedge
Saturday, May 28, 2005

The Hub has unleashed a high-tech Robocop to snoop on motorists, spying on parked cars to sniff out ticket scofflaws and raising warnings from privacy activists.

     More powerful than any meter maid, able to scan 1,000 license plates in a single hour, the AutoFind License Plate Recognition system is slowly creeping through city streets and making the possibility of skirting the law even slimmer.

     ``There needs to be stronger privacy safeguards. Things have just gotten out of control,'' said Mark Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

     ``There should certainly be some privacy rules in place,'' he said. ``You do want to make sure that people who are getting access to this information are doing it for a valid purpose. And they want to make sure the technology is not misused.''

     Designed by Auto Vu of Montreal, the system uses a special camera attached to a city vehicle to read license plates of parked cars and feeds the information into a constantly updated database to nab scofflaws - and orders their cars booted.

     It is also being used in Boston to enforce residential parking rules by running plates to find out if the car is registered in the neighborhood where it is parked.

     ``It's something that people are just going to have to be aware of - that we're in an electronic age,'' said City Councilor James Kelly. ``Unlike years ago, when you could delay paying, now there's electronic technology that's instantaneous. I don't want to see cars booted but I also don't want to see scofflaws.''

     The device is the latest example of cities turning to cameras and databases to keep citizens in check and track activity.

     The new technology is a new level of scrutiny on average motorists who arealready monitored by hundreds of surveillance cameras - used for both traffic and security - positioned at intersections around the city.

     Boston Transportation Department spokesman Jim Mansfield said one boot crew is currently using the system but the city is considering making Auto Vu a permanent part of its traffic enforcement arsenal. The system includes a touch-screen monitor with a moving map and uses global positioning satellite equipment to track locations of vehicles. It can read plates at up to 15 mph, even at an angle.

     The mechanism, which costs about $100,000, is already in use in several other cities, including Chicago, Toronto, Miami, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

     In some cities, it is used by police to search for stolen cars or find vehicles linked to heists, murders or other crimes. It can also be used to monitor where vehicles are parked and for how long. In some cities, labor unions have raised concerns that the computer will steal human jobs by doing police work at a lightning-fast pace.

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License Plate Recognition

License Plate Recognition for a wide range of applications including Parking, Access Control, Logging all vehicles & alarm when Wanted Vehicles detected.