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Over a year of gathering evidence, working with attorneys, defying attempts to silence me, I am now putting this into a public poll, to reference just how much public interest this issue holds.

Does the public want transparency and accountability?

Breaking the sounds of silence Our Neighbourhood Watches are important. But who really are they protecting? Constantia Valley Watches Association (CVWA, CVIC, BKM, WYNBERG CPF SECTOR 4 SUB FORUM) has currently come under the spotlight relating to allegations of unethical accounting practices and poor management of community funds...

While new LPR camera technology can be a great tool for fighting crime, what dangers do they bring? Since LPR cameras record the location and movements of ALL passing vehicles, just how valuable does that information become?

LPR data is stored on a database, who holds access to that database? Who ever holds the keys to this database holds all the power, as American citizens are already finding. Need to know the movements of someone or need to know where they have gone and how often? Well if you know the right people, you can get that info. But at the right price.

And that captured LPR info also has many other uses that can be monetized. Such as car repossessions for financial institutions or vehicle rental companies where clients have defaulted on repayments, where these vehicles are then recovered for reward. Who benefits, are such rewards forwarded to the neighborhood watches who purchased the LPR cameras originally that detected the "default" vehicle? Or private companies who instead have access to the LPR database?

In such instances organisations are often left in the dark, oblivious to the knowledge of how their cameras are used to collect data, which is then processed further to create alternative profit. While American's already complain about such invasions of privacy, luckily SA already has a law that can offer protection: the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 only permits a "public body" to collect and process such information that can be used to identify the data subject (in this case vehicles) where such data relates to the commission of crime. Under definitions of this same Act public bodies are listed as state enterprises, provincial or municipal entities, if such are duly authorized.

Does this mean we can lose this valuable technology used to combat crime? On the contrary, if in fact the City of Cape Town acts as a watchdog and assumes control of such recorded data and instead has all collected data from these LPR's directly streamed to their existing, state of the art facility at the TMC control centre, it can ensure maximum efficiency by combining all the different LPR databases together and achieving even better results!

Will neighborhood watch Patrollers still receive alerts as before? Yes, even more so. Patrollers have always been considered a valuable resource to the City as "eyes and ears." By integrating all databases together and linking all City services together, response networks can be fully utilized including Patrollers, private security service providers, SAPS, Metro, Law Enforcement, Traffic Services, and more.

This will then mean that private entities or companies, as already prohibited within the POPI Act, will no longer be able regulate and control such commercial owned databases but this also means citizens can rest assured such stored personal information concerning their vehicles movements are secure and confidential. Recorded data can then only be accessed by approved controllers within the TMC and under certain regulations. Captured and stored data will no longer be restricted and privileged to only select individuals who are favoured by the owners of the database and no more will such stored information be used to create additional profit for persons having access to these databases. Not uncommon in Cape Town, vehicle repossession agents were already filmed operating in the Constantia Valley after having received access to info from a privately operated LPR database.

Without a doubt License Plate Technology has become a powerful resource in the fight against crime, such power must be protected to ensure equipment and installed infrastructure remains efficient and effective.

License plate readers in use by repo agents Police use them to fight crime, we're talking about license plate readers. They are mounted on police cars that scan license plates.

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