That's Garbage

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Officials in San Jose, California, are considering a plan to place license plate scanners on the city's garbage trucks. They say that will allow the entire city to be scanned once a week as the trucks go about collecting garbage.

Comments

[Crackers Boy]

Will we be adding a new class of "heroes"? Garbage truck drivers. The Thin Brown Line.

CB

[Sanjuro Tsubaki]

Thought that was a laundromat attendant.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Heaven fucking forbid a city goes unscanned.

[DevilDog943]

I presume the city 'leaders' have thought of a plausible reason for doing this. Of course it will be much more polite than FYTW.

Off hand, I cannot think of a good reason for doing so, other than mass collection of data for it's own sake, a la NSA. What public safety or public good will this data collection serve?

[Sanjuro Tsubaki]

We need more crime-fighting garbage collector superheroes.