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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.
Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a study published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, uploading that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or years, sometimes indefinitely.
As the technology becomes cheaper and more ubiquitous, and federal grants focus on aiding local terrorist detection, even small police agencies are able to deploy more sophisticated surveillance systems. While the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that a judge's approval is needed to track a car with GPS, networks of plate scanners allow police effectively to track a driver's location, sometimes several times every day, with few legal restrictions. The ACLU says the scanners assemble what it calls a "single, high-resolution image of our lives."
Eisenberg, the assistant U.S. attorney, said the numbers "fail to show the real qualitative assistance to public safety and law enforcement." He points to the 132 wanted suspects the program helped track. They were a small fraction of the 29 million plates read, but he said tracking those suspects can be critical to keeping an area safe.
Well they have that here if you go on a toll road.
Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that
Does anyone else see the bull**** here? 132 suspects tracked; does that mean apprehended? No it doesn't, and they had to read 29 million plates to get there. This is lameness at its finest, and a major invasion of privacy. No doubt they have judges that'll agree to anything.
I do not think most Americans agree with those things. I think most Americans have too much of their attention on stupid trials,sports, Honey Boo Boo,American idol and other stupid **** to even bother paying attention to what the government is doing.Only a criminal would oppose the government tracking their phone, car, ID and person at all times.
Only a criminal would oppose the government listening to you at all times.
Only a criminal would oppose the government watching you at all times.
Only a criminal would oppose the government reading and recording everything you do on any computer.
Only a criminal would oppose the government knowing everything you read.
Only a criminal would oppose the government knowing everyone you talk to, when, where, why and what was said.
And we know that most Americans agree with that - because most of that already exists.
I think so many people have their attention on that other stuff because they believe the government is doing right for them. They think they don't have to worry about it.I do not think most Americans agree with those things. I think most Americans have too much of their attention on stupid trials,sports, Honey Boo Boo,American idol and other stupid **** to even bother paying attention to what the government is doing.
I think politics just bores the **** out of them. I do not think they believe the government is doing right for them.I think so many people have their attention on that other stuff because they believe the government is doing right for them. They think they don't have to worry about it.
If not 'right', then not bad enough to do anything about it. "Right' enough.I think politics just bores the **** out of them. I do not think they believe the government is doing right for them.
Or they are just ignorant about whats going on.If not 'right', then not bad enough to do anything about it. "Right' enough.
I have nothing to hide from law enforcement or any other government agency, so..... eh. Not saying it's right.. just saying I am not bothered by it.
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Lamest argument supporting privacy invasion in the galaxy.
I think politics just bores the **** out of them. I do not think they believe the government is doing right for them.
Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that
Does anyone else see the bull**** here? 132 suspects tracked; does that mean apprehended? No it doesn't, and they had to read 29 million plates to get there. This is lameness at its finest, and a major invasion of privacy. No doubt they have judges that'll agree to anything.
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