Those fancy automated toll collection equipment need to do various things to sort out and identify each vehicle.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/traffic/sr-520-bridge-can-tell-how-fast-youre-driving-can-/nGB4b/
Washington State Department of Transportation tweeted that the first car to be tolled on the State Route 520 Bridge was traveling at 76 mph......
.....“Do they give you a ticket in the mail when they find out you’ve been speeding?” he asked.
Legeros relayed that question to WSDOT.
“Absolutely not,” Patty Rubstello with WSDOT said in response. “All the information we collect is only for tolling. The only way we release it is with a court subpoena.”...
So much data being collected on people and vehicles and at times there is rather fuzzy privacy regulations on the protection of that data from agencies that are not entitled to that data.
Privacy laws are meant to protect us, but some agencies see 'digital data' as not private.
Even that little black box in your car(also known as it's computer) collects accident data of various car settings at the time of the crash. The data can be flawed in an accident reconstruction, due to various conditions that truly need visual evidence to properly decode the black boxes reliability as a witness of the accident.
With all the future toll roads coming to BC, why don't you ask the government on how long that data is stored.
Is the Data deleted after you have paid the ticket and the money is now in the toll takers bank account?
Or is the data kept for a period of two years for some odd reason?
You can just picture people going to court for either a minor or major case against them and then the prosecutor starts 'trying' to use all sorts of data to make sure the person gets convicted and 'with possible prejudice', due to a long evidence parade of ''''look, look, this person speeds through the automated toll gates and parks their vehicle(automated license plate recognition via the police car patrols) every Wednesday and Friday near that place that is known for bad stuff happening. And their home computer use shows they look at sites that are non-conforming to a drone state of mind'''.
An IP address does not identify the user at the computer/router. Just like a car parked at some spot does not identify who drove that car to that spot. An automated toll gates speed sensing unit can not factor in needs of sudden acceleration/deceleration, due to variables on maneuvering out of dangerous situations.
The comment at the end of article about using the toll gates to punish people for drunk driving. Why do people also ignore that 'actual over the limit impaired drivers' are not being jailed for consecutive months at a time for their supposed crime? What use is a few dollars more, when the government won't use it for jail time for the crime?.... Brainwashing and propaganda hurts us all, so please do not automatically assume a car speeding or crashing is due to being impaired. The mind needs to properly look at all the variables of the accident scene and not just assume the crash is due to one reason, when we all know that many people die on the roads of North America due to poor road maintenance, as well as drivers who can't drive worth shit and can't even stay in the center of their lane on a curve without going on the shoulder or into the oncoming lane.
Dozens of sober drivers/people die in BC every year, at certain points in the roads due to "whats a life actually worth to the yearly budget of road safety improvements?". Concrete center barriers are cheap enough compared to "another sober person died at mile marker 45, which brings the sober death toll at that spot to 21, over 10 years.".
