Victoria police chief Jamie Graham has stated: “It’s that old adage, if you haven’t done anything wrong and there’s no issues, what’s to be worried about?” and “Trust Us On Use Of Data From Surveillance”
When it comes to a new massive surveillance system being considered by the RCMP that would retain B.C. drivers’ license plate numbers as a possible tracking tool.
According to the timescolonist.com
In the next few months, the Mounties could expand their automated licence plate recognition system to retain the plates of drivers who have done nothing wrong – information known as “non-hit” data.
Chief Jamie Graham said he spoke at the Reboot Privacy and Security Conference in February in support of keeping the data in case it was needed in a criminal investigation.
“I said that I’d like to retain it [the non-hit data], so what?” Graham said in an interview on Wednesday.
“It’s that old adage, if you haven’t done anything wrong and there’s no issues, what’s to be worried about? If you are on the run from the law or wanted in another province, a prohibited driver, a list of things, and you’re associated to a motor vehicle, then you should be worried. I say, you’ve got to deal with it.”
Cameras on 43 police vehicles across B.C. record 3,000 licence plates an hour but keep only the information on drivers who are flagged as having outstanding warrants, a dangerous criminal history or expired insurance. The other data is deleted by RCMP computer servers each day.
But the RCMP want to keep all the data, essentially compiling a list of times and locations of thousands of B.C. drivers.
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So let’s get this straight. The RCMP wants to collect information on everyone, store it in a database, and then state “trust us” with that information.
As we pointed out in a recent video report (which can be viewed HERE) the RCMP is a paramilitary force operating in our country during peace times. Now this paramilitary group, who has not been held accountable for countless abuses of power. Are telling us all to just trust them while they collect and store information about every Canadian. Now that doesn’t seem tyrannical at all, does it?
Here is a quick rule of thumb, that I think most people can agree with. When a government, a police agency, or a paramilitary group tells the people to “trust them” with something. We should do the exact opposite.
I definitely hope that this is a huge wake up call to Canadians!
I totally agree, if u feel ur privacy is being taken away then everyone should do something about it! The RCMP will not tell you everything and they don’t have to…..think about it! We are always being watched.
of course they do, and not only that, they would like everyone to have embedded rfid beacons in their universal BCID coming out in november as a new line of health cards — because these cameras will be doing more than just monitoring cars. With banking credentials attached, so they will know absolutely everything about you. Just the level of service you would expect from a government that is so heavily indebted and bankrupt it is essentially going into a controlled receivership.
We are living in a dream. Its time to wake up! 1984 has been proven to be fact.Yet we all just sleep.