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more on fear as a marketing tool in Drew Harwell's License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead they tore the neighborhood apart:
"So it came as a surprise to Skip Erickson when the HOA board this spring declared that its neighborhood was now besieged by crime, with “bullets flying,” street racing and burglaries “terrorizing the families.”
To address the threat, the board said it wanted to buy one of the country’s hottest new security tools: license plate readers built to scan the tag on every passing vehicle for later inspection by homeowners and police.
To Erickson, 71, the idea of recording everyone’s movements in hopes of combating some imaginary menace seemed invasive, ineffective and absurd."
Oct 23, 2021, 9:30:27 PM
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