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Oct 9,2008
Technology Versus Civil Liberties in Portland
by shooter
The Portland Police Department is testing a new camera system that automatically records the license plate number, time, and location of vehicles encountered while police are on patrol.The plate number is compared against a database of stolen license plates to help identify and recover stolen vehicles. The system can even track the movements of a vehicle in the city because all the plate numbers recorded are stored in a database.
While the usefulness of this system is obvious, it does raise civil liberties concerns. The biggest question is how will the public be assured that the recorded information will only be used for its intended purpose? Can the information be subpoenaed for use in civil cases?
These systems have been in use in the US for about 5 years, while similar camera systems have been used in Europe for much longer. Police departments who use the system report success with the system, recovering numerous stolen ve
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Sep 17,2008
Debunking Urban Legends—Take Email Warnings with a Grain of Salt
by pearlgirl
by Stephanie Reynolds Have you ever received an email warning you about ankle-slashing gangs hiding under cars? How about killers lurking in backseats? Kidney thieves? A deadly game, popular with teens, called Spunkball? Knockout, or even deadly, perfume samples? These are just a few, of the many, false stories about crime and violence circulating around the internet. The stories often contain instructions, such as, "Please forward this to everyone you know! It could save a life!" Recipients of the messages, with the best of intentions, forward the messages without checking for validity, and the misinformation spreads like wildfire. The stories rarely contain anything useful or accurate, yet people may change their behaviors based on the information they receive from these cautionary tales. Did you ever hear the urban legend that, as an initiation rite, gang members drive around without their headlights on, and the first person who flashes their lights at them i
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Jul 19,2008
Is this the graffiti we need to be worried about?
by stockboy
Portland: Chalk cleanup cost to guerrilla marketer Thursday July 17, 12:57 pm ET by Tim Fought, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- "Portland has made attracting a "young creative" class of hip, high-tech artists and knowledge workers a matter of civic policy. But it put its foot down on a guerrilla marketing tactic by an online classifieds company: hundreds of 2-by-4-foot chalk ads on the city streets. A city official considers it vandalism." Read the full article Walking the streets of the Pearl with the 'offensive graffiti' painted on the buildings walls, cigarette butts littered all over the streets sidewalks outside some of the local watering holes and the garbage in the streets should we spend time and money worrying about chalk images on the sidewalks? I, personally, think not! Let's have a little more pride in our community and put some effort into keeping the area clean. Just my opinion!
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