Parking in Waterloo Region

[Coke6pk]

Coke, in all honesty, I'm not sure you appreciate the vast difference in scale between whats recorded now and what was recorded in the past as well as the huge improvements in technology and algorithms that increases, by many orders of magnitude, the 'usefulness' of that data.

Agreed.  I know data is a big business, and the way of reaping it in has evolved greatly.  From my law-enforcement perspective, I am solely referring to the collection of information for the purposes of law enforcement.  If that data was used by the government for "other" purposes, I could see the complaints being valid, but when a by-law unit collects licence plate info (which is where this conversation began) for the sole purpose of writing tickets on cars illegally parked, I still see very little cause for concern no matter how long they hold the info (so same day is generous).

Coke