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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeighbor "That takes away my privacy"
My idiot right wing neighbor thinks the government tracking government owned property on government owned or regulated roadways is taking away his privacy.
The ignorance of these people is amazing.
IRS Among agencies that hired license plate-tracking vendor
By Kathleen Miller, Bloomberg News
Bloomberg
3:20 p.m. CDT, April 19, 2014
WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to a license plate-tracking company before Homeland Security leaders dropped a plan for similar work amid privacy complaints.
Federal offices such as the Forest Service and the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command chose Livermore, Calif.-based Vigilant Solutions to provide access to license plate databases or tools used to collect plate information, according to government procurement records compiled by Bloomberg.
Vigilant, a closely held company, has received such work since 2009. In February, Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered the cancelation of an immigration agency plan to buy access to national license plate data. While the technology can help solve crimes, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have said the mass collection of data infringes the privacy of innocent people.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-plates19-20140419,0,7330812.story
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Neighbor "That takes away my privacy" (Original Post)
RB TexLa
Apr 2014
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OutNow
(868 posts)1. Also, your idiot left wing DUer objects to government mass tracking
I usually agree with the ACLU. Been a member for 40 years, ever since COINTELPRO was exposed. Google it.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)2. The gov't knows enough about us....enough is enough. nt
msongs
(67,459 posts)4. making profit off license plates is a tad dubious IMO nt
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)5. I'm surprised they haven't
required us to have tracking systems implanted in our bodies.
These agencies appear to be run by people with a paranoia problem.
dembotoz
(16,852 posts)6. they do not have to -- your smartphone does is for them
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)9. Good thing I don't have one. n/t
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)7. Yes, the ignorance of the ACLU is amazing.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. "an immigration agency plan to buy access to national license plate data"
is that saying a GOV immigration agency wants to BUY info from a private company"???????
Why are putting all our public info into the hands of private companies, that's what I do not understand.
Amd spending more to do it, to boot.