You’ll be Scanned “At Least Once a Week,” Trash Trucks to be Equipped with License Plate Scanners

Councilman Johnny Khamis of San Jose recently suggested that garbage trucks should be used to help the police catch suspects. The councilman said that license plate readers can be placed on garbage trucks, and would send information back to police.

This would give police an extra level of surveillance that would be undetected by most people.

“We can cover every street at least once a week and possibly deter thieves from coming into our city,” Khamis told San Jose Mercury News.

“You’re not expecting privacy on a public street,” he added.

However, privacy advocates and representatives with the ACLU pointed out that this is an obvious violation of privacy.

“The idea is they would also collect the location of cars as they drive down the street. If it’s collected repeatedly over a long period of time, it can reveal intimate data about you like attending a religious service or a gay bar. People have a right to live their lives without constantly being monitored by the government,” Chris Conley of the ACLU said.

Sadly, the companies that dispose of trash in the city are not just open to the idea, but they are reportedly “enthusiastic” about the idea.

While the police and the media have claimed that this program will be used to track down stolen cars and abducted children, it is more likely that it will be used to track down small-time drug users and sellers, and nonviolent offenders with outstanding warrants.

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