DEA Uses License-Plate Readers to Build Database for Authorities

[Raising Heel]

The DEA program collects data about vehicle movements, including time, direction and location, from high-tech cameras placed strategically on major highways. Many devices also record visual images of drivers and passengers, which are sometimes clear enough for investigators to confirm identities, according to DEA documents and people familiar with the program.
The documents show that the DEA also uses license-plate readers operated by state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies to feed into its own network and create a far-reaching, constantly updating database of electronic eyes scanning traffic on the roads to steer police toward suspects.
Also, this nugget:

In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Marshals Service flies planes carrying devices that mimic cellphone towers in order to scan the identifying information of Americans' phones as it searches for criminal suspects and fugitives. Justice Department officials have said the program is legal.

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Do we have any expectation of privacy anymore? Should we?



This post was edited on 1/27 8:30 AM by Raising Heel

DEA Uses License-Plate Readers to Build Database

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

 

[gunslingerdick]

Originally posted by Raising Heel:

The DEA program collects data about vehicle movements, including time, direction and location, from high-tech cameras placed strategically on major highways. Many devices also record visual images of drivers and passengers, which are sometimes clear enough for investigators to confirm identities, according to DEA documents and people familiar with the program.
The documents show that the DEA also uses license-plate readers operated by state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies to feed into its own network and create a far-reaching, constantly updating database of electronic eyes scanning traffic on the roads to steer police toward suspects.
Also, this nugget:

In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Marshals Service flies planes carrying devices that mimic cellphone towers in order to scan the identifying information of Americans' phones as it searches for criminal suspects and fugitives. Justice Department officials have said the program is legal.

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Do we have any expectation of privacy anymore? Should we?



This post was edited on 1/27 8:30 AM by Raising Heel

I would like to have more privacy. But I'm not sure in this day and time it's possible. Would you rather the govt not see you getting a hummer in a parked car or would you rather nip a terrorist plot in the bud? Too many threats to rail against the measures put in place to keep us safe. But it sure is a slippery slope.

 

[heelbent]

Originally posted by gunslingerdick:
I would like to have more privacy. But I'm not sure in this day and time it's possible.

You'd be amazed at what the gov't already knows about you GSD. About us all. There are some folks here at Bragg that have access to info that would make us all uncomfortable.

Nice shoes, BTW.



This post was edited on 1/28 9:23 AM by heelbent

 

[gunslingerdick]

Originally posted by heelbent:

You'd be amazed at what the gov't already knows about you GSD. About us all. There are some folks here at Bragg that have access to info that would make is all uncomfortable.

I'm not sure I would be "amazed". I've become very leery of the govt over the last 10 years. Honestly, nothing would really surprise me. I remember my wife and me watching the movie "Enemy of The State" with Will Smith and Gene Hackman back in the late 90s. There were some things in that movie where I thought to myself, "whoa...is this really happening?". But I realized that if a writer thought it up for a screenplay, then someone in our govt thought about it long before them.

Originally posted by heelbent:


Nice shoes, BTW.