Parking in Waterloo Region

[MidTowner]

'I think the "Driving is a privilege not a right" is a very poor argument in for anything.'

I think there might be a word missing there- is a very poor argument "in and of itself" for anything? Plenty of policies being used in the real world are based on the argument that driving is not a right in the same way as, say, walking down the street. You can be stopped by police while driving without any evidence of wrongdoing, for instance. That's not the case when walking down the street, thankfully (though, in practice, the right to walk down the street is unfortunately not always respected).

You're dead right that using license plate recognition to record vehicles' locations would be an invasion of privacy. There need to be safeguards to make sure that information is destroyed.

Using facial recognition software in public places shouldn't be entertained. I note that you say "high-risk individuals," and not even "individuals with outstanding warrants." Well, the popular notions of "high-risk" could easily shift in the future, and putting an infrastructure in place to restrict people's basic freedoms with such ease is a bad idea.

Edit: I apologize for (again) veering off topic. Generally I think chutten's initial post at least highlighting that there are possible privacy concerns to ALPR was probably enough, so sorry for going on.