[Informatics] U4O2 Ethical dilemmas

[Mark]

An American case study related to ethical dilemmas and use of personal
information:

(
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/security-this-week-license-plate-readers-in-texas-are-now-also-debt-collectors/
)

"Vehicle surveillance broker Vigilant Solutions has offered Texas law
enforcement agencies “free” access to its massive automated license plate
reader databases and analytical tools— but only if the police give Vigilant
access to all of their data on outstanding court fees and hand the company
a 25 percent surcharge from money collected from drivers with outstanding
court fines.

Vigilant also gets to keep a copy of any license-plate data collected by
the police, even after the contract ends, and can retain it indefinitely.
The EFF warns that it turns police into debt collectors and data miners.

Neither policymakers nor the public have evaluated the  technology, it
contains a non-disparagement clause, and it uploads everyone’s driving
patterns into a private system without any ways for these individuals to
control how their data is used or shared..."


Ah, those Americans can always be counted on for juicy case studies.​

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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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