Amanda Mooney posted a note about being told she needed corporate permission to take a picture in a store. Mooney’s interest was in telling others how much she likes the products and the brand — exactly the sort of word of mouth advertising most brands are anxious for, but imagine some more pedestrian uses: what [...]
Posted August 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: corporate, photography, police state, retail, rules, security, social communication, terrorism. One Comment.
Engadget yesterday had a story about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, a device that mounts on police cars and scans 500 to 800 license plates an hour. More details are in the Wired News story, where LA County police commander Sid Heal notes that the system is hands-off: “It doesn’t require the [officer] to do [...]
Posted June 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: LA county, license plate, license plate reader, license plates, mobile, pervasive, police, police car, police cruiser, police state, scanner, surveillance. 2 Comments.
