Comments on: LENS http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/07/lens Ben Hyde Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joel Dinda http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/07/lens/comment-page-1#comment-226 Joel Dinda Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/07/lens/#comment-226 My guess is LENS notification isn't immediate; the DMV doesn't know about the conviction until a court reports it, which is unlikely to be on the day of the arrest. Where I work, the typical turnaround from traffic stop to driving record is in the range of three weeks to two months. Some take years. DPPA everywhere is pretty much like NY's. For the record, we DMV bureaucrats spend a lot of time worrying about permissible record access; finding an appropriate balance between privacy and the public's right to know is not an easy thing. Finally: You might want to pick some state's website and search for Uniform Commercial Code. My guess is LENS notification isn’t immediate; the DMV doesn’t know about the conviction until a court reports it, which is unlikely to be on the day of the arrest. Where I work, the typical turnaround from traffic stop to driving record is in the range of three weeks to two months. Some take years.

DPPA everywhere is pretty much like NY’s. For the record, we DMV bureaucrats spend a lot of time worrying about permissible record access; finding an appropriate balance between privacy and the public’s right to know is not an easy thing.

Finally: You might want to pick some state’s website and search for Uniform Commercial Code.

]]> By: Ben Hyde http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/07/lens/comment-page-1#comment-227 Ben Hyde Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/07/lens/#comment-227 Joel - Thanks for the informed opinion. Dumb of me to forget that there is another stage in the information pipeline so that the traffic violations don't go straight from the policeman's cruiser to the DMV; but stop off for a period of time in the courts. I agree that finding the balance is not easy. Part of my interest is in how the parties in these information market are configured. The public information databases are a good case study because they are more transparent about their operations. That said even those have a tough problem getting the balance of negotiating power between information sources and the information consumers. Rare for those being modeled to be well represented at the table, Common for those aggregating the models, and those consuming the models to be. represented. That makes me suspect that the all so many "privacy protection acts" are become biased toward the latter two classes of participants concerns. Joel – Thanks for the informed opinion. Dumb of me to forget that there is another stage in the information pipeline so that the traffic violations don’t go straight from the policeman’s cruiser to the DMV; but stop off for a period of time in the courts.

I agree that finding the balance is not easy. Part of my interest is in how the parties in these information market are configured. The public information databases are a good case study because they are more transparent about their operations.

That said even those have a tough problem getting the balance of negotiating power between information sources and the information consumers. Rare for those being modeled to be well represented at the table, Common for those aggregating the models, and those consuming the models to be. represented.

That makes me suspect that the all so many “privacy protection acts” are become biased toward the latter two classes of participants concerns.

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