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Lollygagger
Joined 2013
Posts: 131

10 years ago

No conspiracy theory here, this is real!

10 years ago

(CNN) -- Police around the United States are recording the license plates of passing drivers and storing the information for years with little privacy protection, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
"The documents paint a startling picture of a technology deployed with too few rules that is becoming a tool for mass routine location tracking and surveillance," the ACLU said in a written statement.
The license plate readers alert police to an automobile associated with an investigation, "but such instances account for a tiny fraction of license plate scans, and too many police departments are storing millions of records about innocent drivers," the ACLU said.
"Private companies are also using license plate readers and sharing the information they collect with police with little or no oversight or privacy protections. A lack of regulation means that policies governing how long our location data is kept vary widely," the ACLU said.

There is more to this article but this is scary stuff.

Can we discuss this issue without it morphing into alleged misuses of fluoride, chemtrails, and the second shooter on the grassy knoll?

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