This Should Be the Scariest Thing in the News You Read Today

[Don]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013...movement-of-every-vehicle-with-license-plate/

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.

Please note what the police officer quoted in the article says:

“There’s no expectation of privacy” for a vehicle driving on a public road or parked in a public place, said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth, a spokesman for the Mesquite Police Department in Texas, which has records stretching back to 2008, although the city plans next month to begin deleting files older than two years. “It’s just a vehicle. It’s just a license plate.”

 

[Revmitchell]

There may not be an expectation of privacy while driving down the road, but there is an expectation that our government is not unjustly keeping a database on us just for engaging in simple day to day activities which have nothing to do with enforcing any actual laws broken.

 

[Aaron]

It's NOT just a vehilcle, nor JUST a license plate. It's SOMEONE's vehicle, and SOMEONE's license plate.

 

[InTheLight]

It is true there is no expectation of privacy if you are in public, but why police departments would save images for years is what I want to know. Think of the massive amounts of memory and server space those image would occupy. In fact, just thinking about the memory required makes me disbelieve they keep these images for more than a month or so.

 

[poncho]

Alex Jones was reporting on this in the 1990's. He was reporting most of today's news way back then.

Don't believe it? Go to youtube and watch the full version of Police State 2000.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=3B-zQImEZq8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3B-zQImEZq8

 

[poncho]

Here's some more in Police State 2 The Takeover that came out in 2000.

http://archive.org/details/polstate2

Here's how we came to accept the police state and having our every move tracked and traced.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=BqxUFVsmPcQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBqxUFVsmPcQ

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

If I haven't been anywhere I shouldn't be, why do I care if they know where I have been? And, if I haven't been anywhere I shouldn't be -- or, for example, haven't frequently visited an area under surveillance for suspicious activity -- why would they look behind my license plate number, so to speak, to find out who I am? Again, this is paranoia running rampant.

 

[poncho]

I agree. Mass paranoia has led us to giving up our privacy and liberties for safety.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

I agree. Mass paranoia has led us to giving up our privacy and liberties for safety.

You're twisting my words. I haven't given up anything. My freedoms as promised under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are as intact as they were at the time the ink was still wet.

I tire of those who insist on believing we live in a police state. We don't. If you wish to believe otherwise, feel free, as free as such opinions still are in this country. If there were truly restrictions on such freedoms, you couldn't continue to post them. You would simply disappear. Your continued presence is evidence defying your viewpoint.