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    Stringcheese3 months ago

    I hope this is as much of an outrage to everyone else as it is to me.

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      Georgia503 months ago

      In which state do motorists have a right to operate motor vehicles on public roads anonymously? There neither is nor has ever been such a right. In most states, you cannot so much as park an unlicensed vehicle on a public road.

      Do try and make the distinction between rights and privileges. You want privacy when tavelling on public roads? Fine...hook your horses to a buggy like the Amish and off ya go.

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      PsychoHosebeast3 months ago

      Not sure I'm outraged, but it strikes me as a tremendous waste of tax money and resources to accomplish very little.

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    Stringcheese3 months ago

    Oh, and radioactive levels? ... wtf?

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    greencoat3 months ago

    I think it could be a good thing. Considering.

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      y_soitenly3 months ago

      Considering what?
      Its BS. There's no need for that. It's one thing if they wanna track you going into a building or on private property but not for the whole city. Come on... this is just pure paranoia.

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      y_soitenly3 months ago

      WOW
      Who's the Hot blonde anchor on news channel 8?

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        MajJohn3 months ago

        Let's see now, New York, state and city is represented by liberals or conservatives? Well just who would have thunk it! Sort of like all the voting problems in Florida's counties controlled by the same party who then said the election was tainted by all those nasty chads.

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        Netwit3 months ago

        Say good bye to your right to privacy all in the name of "national security"

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          HMMace3 months ago

          Rigth to privacy ??? You don't care when a murdering muslim drives his bomb iinto Manhatten??? he should get in with out being detected??? WAKE UP...
          UNLESS--OF COURSE --YOU ARE THE MURDERING MUSLIM???

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        memestryker3 months ago

        Michael Bloomberg already tells people how to cook and is attempting to create a totalitarian U.S. regime without ever becoming president himself. This doesn't surprise me. Guess I'll wear a wig and glasses and come in through Penn Station if I visit NYC again.

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        Stringcheese3 months ago

        And I'd like to see someone make a prop post using a longer title ;)

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        quackpot3 months ago

        That is why auto theft rates are so high in New York City.

        To avoid surveillance, most folks steal their neighbor's car when they need to drive into Manhattan for a tryst.

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          mackiemesser3 months ago

          Sounds like a massive undertaking and depending on how long the data will be kept, it just seems like it'll take a huge amount of computer storage...unless each vehicle is entered once and additional infor for that vehicle is appended to it (date-time-place-in and date-time-place-out etc). Seems that it may be useful for law enforcement purposes but I wonder if it would be cost effective? As far as invasion of privacy goes, I sincerely doubt that anyone would be looking at every photo considering the massive amount of data that would be input and that viewing would take place only when there is reason to do so....excluding that rogue employee who would look up his acquaintances (and this could be countered by stringent security measures).

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            ecotourusa3 months ago

            apathetic americans will be voting for McCain or Obama!
            (simply stated)

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              traveler20003 months ago

              .*** .....doubt that anyone would be looking at every photo considering the massive amount of data that would be input and that viewing ...... ***

              You don't know.
              They can, that's enough.
              They can use it if you e.g. marched against some political decision, e.g. you are against the war in Iraq, or you are for impeachement, or ......

              The fact is that where you go and what you do, as long it's not to harm others or do something very illegal , you should be free to go and be where you want, whithout Big Brother being able to know, as it is none of his business.

              As for your remark, ".. depends how long they keep it...", even if they say "only one month", are you sure they are telling the truth????

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              ind063 months ago

              Radiation levels?!
              There goes my plan to visit New York. :(

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                ecotourusa3 months ago

                or, you can resort to another method of transportation.
                I just ordered a small (20lbs) electric scooter on Ebay.
                top speed: 11mph!

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                jordan113 months ago

                I don't get it. What's the point? If there's a terrorist attack will they look at the film of people entering on the day of attack, (thousands upon thousands of vehicles), check out each and every one (thousands upon thousands of vehicles), and try to find the perpetrators that way? What about if the perpetrators entered the day before, or two days before, or three days before? I just don't see the sense of this.

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                  rawreel3 months ago

                  Good point. Additionally, the terrorists have CNN too. So they know about this therefore why don't they just take the bus or train? Secondly, terrorists don't execute their plans on the spur of the moment. They plan that **** for months. Who's to say that the terrorists don't live there months in advance and plan from inside? This vehicle tracking idea won't do a thing to help in that case.

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                  simonsez3 months ago

                  This is an example of government doing something only because they can with today's technology. It is HUGE amounts of money wasted ... it could never be valuable enough to rationalize the cost.

                  Government: Mind your own business and do the things you are supposed to do.

                  Leave us alone, otherwise.

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                    mntnman4443 months ago

                    Orwell's 1984 was about totalitarian govt and the cold war was based on not letting the Soviet Union come over here and do things like this to us,it should be mandatory reading in schools...what the hell is wrong with these people who willingly want to give up freedom?

                    http://www.orwelltoday.com/surveillance.shtml

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                      cleare3 months ago

                      brother, oh brother...oh big brother.

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                        kritikit3 months ago

                        and thats why i left, drunk undercover s, police harassing children and innocent people, beating them in the streets and leaving them for dead. Its systematic harassment. all they have to do is put all the man power to stopping actual upper level crime instead of focusing on petty crime. and news flash they have cameras all over all five boroughs and it feeds in to nypd and even on public access in nyc. they are watching they are tracking now they are just releasing it to the press.

                        setting up a dumpy park to be the next safest park, while not adding staff or park police too it, breaking a mans knee cap, as he rides his bike because they think he has alcohol in his possession, yet bloomburg and all the commissioners drink wine and beer while the philharmonic plays... also what about the radioactive parks in staten island, why havent we seen a investigation on how and why that radioactive waste was dumped there. and diamond dealer flying though the emergency lane of all the tunnels with lights and sirens... its set up to control the underclass, they jacked up the rent, cut the taxes, increased the food cost, handcuff 4 yearolds to chairs... they are making nyc people powerless... cranes collapse, bricks killing people, and abuse of authority goes unchecked... why don't they give more money to policing the police, instead of dirty bomb surveillance.

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                          schoong3243 months ago

                          This vaguely reminds me of a book by a little known author called George Orwell or something like that.....let's see what was the name of it.......

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                            rawreel3 months ago

                            Hey Georgia50 (and anyone else who supports this practice) remember what the word public means. It means that it belongs to the people, all people. It does not mean that public areas belong to the government and people should be subject to whatever invasive practices they see fit to force upon us. Public land belongs to us and the government officials work for us. Nothing this drastic should ever be allowed to begin without the expressed consent of the people of Manhattan at least. I think all of New York should get a say regardless of which address. It should be put on the ballot as a proposition to be voted on by all New Yorkers in the November election. They claim that it is a matter of national security to make the weak-minded, easily frightened masses go along with their invasions quietly. Ever see Brazil by Terry Gilliam? You should. Everyone should. Remember those who would allow their liberty to be sacrificed for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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