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Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Everywhere you go, Obama wants to know, he's tracking your license plate to and fro
He sees you when you're driving. He knows where you came from. He's watching
where you're going. And he's waiting for you around the bend.
I'll bet you thought Enemy of the State was a work of fiction.
Nope. While you were singing along to American Idol, fretting about #DeflateGate, or waiting for the Blizzard That Never Was, the Obama administration built a massive database to track us in real time. Millions of license plate scanners mounted along roads nationwide log our every move, with the data freely available to any law enforcement agency who asks for it. Privacy? Yeah, you don't have that. Big Brother Obama sees all.
The Justice Department has been building a national database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret domestic intelligence-gathering program that scans and stores hundreds of millions of records about motorists, according to current and former officials and government documents.
The primary goal of the license-plate tracking program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, is to seize cars, cash and other assets to combat drug trafficking, according to one government document. But the database's use has expanded to hunt for vehicles associated with numerous other potential crimes, from kidnappings to killings to rape suspects, say people familiar with the matter.
Officials have publicly said that they track vehicles near the border with Mexico to help fight drug cartels. What hasn't been previously disclosed is that the DEA has spent years working to expand the database "throughout the United States," according to one email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Many state and local law-enforcement agencies are accessing the database for a variety of investigations, according to people familiar with the program, putting a wealth of information in the hands of local officials who can track vehicles in real time on major roadways.
Seven years ago I predicted just this kind of thing, when I wrote about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900. Back then it was 2 cameras mounted on a police car driving around parking lots. I'm sure the technology has "matured" in the interim, and it looks like they've got years and years of data recorded, now correlated into one big conveniently searchable database.
Which, apparently, the state of Maryland is already using to
harass legal concealed carry permit holders. Because the Fourth
Amendment is a shadow of its former self. And our Founding Fathers
could never have imagined trading our liberty for the illusion of
"security."
Posted at 13:36 by Chris Wysocki
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