It Takes Two To Kill Illegal Police Licence Surveillance
Vincent Gogolek
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Posted 01.22.2013
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Canada British Columbia
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Elizabeth Denham,
Surveillance,
Jennifer Stoddart,
Information and Privacy Commissioner,
Rcmp,
Police,
Privacy Commissioner,
Privacy,
License Plates,
BC Rcmp,
Alpr,
Bc Privacy,
BC Politics,
Victoria Police Licence Plates,
Victoria Police,
Bc Freedom of Information and Privacy Association,
Canada British Columbia News
B.C.'s Information and Privacy Commissioner took a stiff shot at the use of Automatic License Plate Recognition technology by the Victoria police. But it will likely take more than just her efforts to bring this ever-expanding surveillance system back in line with privacy law. The RCMP simply shouldn't be running a surveillance system on people who haven't broken any law, and they shouldn't be able to take advantage of the federal-provincial jurisdictional split to do so either.
