TRANSPARENCY UPDATE: In response to my earlier post on license-plate tracking, Gary Hudson emails:

Since there is no expectation of privacy while in public, and it is obvious it is legal to record the police (and by extension all other government officials) I believe a proper citizen response to the license plate imbroglio would be to ask people to install private scanners, and upload info collected to a central database, where the movements of all manner of government vehicles may be permanently tracked, stored and downloaded to drivers. That way the location of every government-owned vehicle would be known, and in real time. This will no doubt reduce crime statistics, such as speeding, to which the authorities couldn’t object. We’d be able to quantify trips to Dunk’n Donuts or the local adult store. Let’s do it for the children!

Makes sense to me.