No Place To Hide, Good News for Stalkers Dept. 0
Donna Sciulli is one of the most photographed women in Pittsburgh.
On Aug. 30, they snapped shots of her picking up groceries at the Pennsylvania Macaroni Co. in the Strip District. Two days earlier, shutters flew as she drove past the U.S. Steel Tower.
And outside her Beechview home, she’s been pictured nearly a dozen times.
Ms. Sciulli is not a celebrity. She is, however, one of the 80,000 Pittsburgh drivers whose license plates had been scanned multiple times in August by the Pittsburgh Parking Authority, which is using cameras mounted on cruisers to record a massive database of where and when everyday people go about their business.
Cars are photographed ostensibly to determine whether they have outstanding parking tickets.
And, since the Parking Authority considers its snapshots to be a public records and keeps them on file and on line for at least 30 days, whether or not outstanding violations are found (in the great majority of cases, they are not), anyone can track anybody.