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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Is Your Car Being Tracked By A License-Plate Scanner?

The government can now track your movements when you drive and, over time, put together a profile of how you lead your life

If you drive through Maryland, the state may be using an automated reader to photograph your license plate — and storing your movements away for future use. Maryland is not alone. ACLU offices in 38 states are looking into how the government is using license-plate readers across the country — and what it is doing with the data. The ACLU is already calling the license-plate readers “the next big thing in government tracking.”

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just wait until dna,or body chemistry tracking has been perfected.Presently all non physical forms of tracking will only reveal where one is by virtue of where they live or what they drive.We all know that surveillance cameras cannot disseminate lookalikes.Body chemistry tracking is an absolute identification that will render all else obsolete.

Anonymous said...

Easy Pass tracks your movements too.

Anonymous said...

The more of this they do, the safer I feel. If it was up to me, every infant born on US soil would have a DNA sample taken at birth. Crime would end in 20 years.

lmclain said...

10:37.....is a stupid moronic imbecile. He clicks his heels and secretly wears a Nazi Gestapo uniform at his house. He knows NOTHING about crime (thinks that no one would commit crime because their DNA is stored...lol) and NOTHING about our history or philosophy as a nation. He wants to be "safe"....so he wants us all--- all of us --- to give up freedoms and surrender our very existence to people he has never met, under the assumption (a wrong one) that THEY will "protect him". And he actually BELIEVES it. How completely and utterly stupid he is....

Anonymous said...

10:37 go give your DNA to the U.S. government, and when they line us up to get shot, I hope you're at the front of the line.

Anonymous said...

Why is this necessary to begin with? What states are using this? Why don't we know more about this in MD? Sorry for the questions, just didn't know about this. Any information is appreciated.

Anonymous said...

Funny how LPR
s arent being used to track anyone. They are being used exactly how they are suppose to be. For locating wanted people, stolen cars/tags and suspended/revoked driver. Excellent technology.