Ohio state's top legal eagle just made it harder for the FBI, ICE, cops to snoop around its DMV DB for people's faces The Attorney General of Ohio has banned cops and the Feds from accessing the US state's database of drivers' license plates and faces until the officers and g-men receive adequate privacy compliance training. “I share the privacy and civil-liberty concerns of those who fear misuse of this powerful identification technology,” …
The traditional conservative outlook is 'I'm getting on with my life, your business is none of my business when it doesn't affect me'
Using software to search through the entire 'Innocent until proven guilty population' is just a fishing trip with 'Think of the children' as a poor excuse for not slimming the search parameters with actual detective work - with the added problem of blind trust in automation.
The traditional conservative outlook is 'I'm getting on with my life, your business is none of my business when it doesn't affect me'
A lovely idea, but it has nothing to do with "conservative" as it applies to Ohio. This is the state that gave us Simon Leis, after all; and that was in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), generally one of the less-reactionary parts of Ohio. The state with the infamous abusive mayor's courts. A state that went to much trouble to purge voter roles of voters the incumbents deemed undesirable, using the despicable "use it or lose it" tactic, and engaged in other voter suppression such as the notorious HB 194.
Training on our individual rights would be a good start.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Please stop it.
The headline kind-of makes a false equivalence between tracking individuals (faces) and number plates. As if vehicles deserved the same rights as people!
The article text makes it clear it's about training, which is (hopefully) more sensible and proportionate on the subject. But you might miss that if you haven't contemplated your car's very own "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
You are misunderstanding, I think. The database contains images of drivers faces, linked to vehicle registrations. Searches on a vehicle registration will return those images.
The State has noted that many of these searches are carried out without a warrant, and is therefore limiting access to the database until such time as law-enforcement agencies are given training in the proper use of the database.
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