wa_desert_rat Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 According to this article, beginning in about 2008 the US DEA began a program of taking photographs of every car (including license plate) moving along certain highways near Mexico. Later the system was expanded to include highway cameras in other areas. The photographs are apparently kept for more than six months and the ACLU says that while they were once available to only Federal agencies they now appear to be available to any local, state or federal agency employee who has been "vetted" by the DEA. http://www.itworld.com/article/2875935/dea-cameras-tracking-hundreds-of-millions-of-car-journeys-across-the-us.html?phint=newt%3Ditworld_today&phint=idg_eid%3Dafbdce93df1132e5de07d306edf23bac#tk.ITWNLE_nlt_today_2015-01-27 No court oversight on the program has me worried; along with the fact that law enforcement agencies, which can (and will) arrest and prosecute you has access to this data. NSA and CIA, which are not law enforcement agencies and have no powers of arrest or prosecution (not to mention no legal ability to mount operations inside the US and have court and have both Congressional oversight) are scary enough. But I am not comfortable with police agencies (and tax collection agencies) monitoring where I might be traveling. WDR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vermilye Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Trying to keep license plate & travel information out of anyones hands is a lost cause. For example, auto repro companies are using plate cameras. The information is finding its way to huge national databases that are available to just about anyone with the $ to pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbaraok Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 You must not be driving in any towns that have photo cameras enforcing red lights - - quite common in lots of cities. Barb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skp51443 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sensors/privacy-concerns-grow-as-us-police-departments-turn-to-license-plate-readers Your local U.S. police department has likely already turned to surveillance cameras that can automatically read all visible license plates on passing cars. Such license plate readers can do more than help find stolen vehicles or robbers' getaway cars—they have begun to transform law enforcement by allowing officers to home in on criminal hideouts by tracking crime patterns over time. But that powerful capability goes hand-in-hand with worries about the privacy of ordinary, law-abiding citizens as police departments store license plate and location information for longer periods of time. As many as 70 percent of local U.S. police departments already use license plate reader systems, according to a new RAND report. The technology first pioneered by the UK in the 1990s to fight Irish Republican Army terrorism has since become popular among U.S. law enforcement, mainly for the purpose of tracking down stolen vehicles. Yet police departments are discovering that the technology, combined with growing license plate databases, can also rapidly identify suspect vehicles in the vicinity of a crime or help figure out the centers of criminal activity such as "chop shops" dealing in stolen vehicles. Lots of good reading here, like the organization or not. https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/license-plate-scanners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newt Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 You ever notice the cameras located at the Border Patrol checkpoints along along highways close to the border? Why do they need those to see if you are a citizen or not? Newt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjim Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 You think they have some of those cameras that can see into things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skp51443 Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Smile for the camera, hope you aren't in the shower when tyey drop by! Wall penetrating vision system: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30904218 http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/20/police-use-radar-device-to-see-inside-yo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXiceman Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Photograph away. They will find my life pretty boring. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Joyce Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 "First they came for the Jewsand I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." Martin Niemöller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbaraok Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 You ever notice the cameras located at the Border Patrol checkpoints along along highways close to the border? Why do they need those to see if you are a citizen or not? Newt Not all of those are camera's, some are detectors looking for all kinds of chemicals and radiation emissions. Barb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nana25k Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Following me is gonna put somebody to sleep for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieere Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 The agencies already have all the information they need on us, but illegals have free reign unless they are arrested. I just hope they find me to bury me. Nu Lol! Really I only am staying alive as I can't afford to die! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RV_ Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Amen Bill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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