A bill to limit and expand law enforcement's use of license plate readers passed out of a Virginia House subcommittee, sparking questions during a debate about the age-old dance between government overreach and public safety.
Since August, the driver has gotten at least four parking fines associated with a personalized car plate he's had for the past 10 years. But it wasn't until the driver, Omar Ahmad of Ontario, was sent a Facebook Marketplace listing by his brother that he finally understood why.
The United States is cobbling together what Hill calls a "rickety surveillance state" built on this and other surveillance technologies. "We have only the rickety scaffolding of the Panopticon; it is not yet fully constructed," she observes. "We still have time to decide whether or not we actually want to build it.
Borough President Vito Fossella announced Friday an updated complaint in his federal court case against New York's congestion pricing plan -- likening it to one of Staten Island’s greatest environmental disasters.