BZ editor-in-chief Miriam Krekel asks why does data protection only play a subordinate role in license plate scanners Photo: Christian Lohse
By Miriam Krekel
If you drove your car on Thursday, how long did it take you to find a parking space?
Because how the location of the parking spaces in Berlin is developing is now monitored by the traffic management with its own car. It scans free and occupied parking spaces and the license plates of parked cars.
I’m surprised that after the discussion about data protection with license plate scanners, which were used to catch criminals, the data protectionists are now so relaxed.
But what you also ask yourself: What is the actual goal? On the one hand, there should be more and more parking zones. But: If the scanners also measured how long a car was stationary – it would also play perfectly into the Senate’s anti-car policy.
