Police around the country have been affixing high-tech scanners to the exterior of their patrol cars, snapping a picture of every passing license plate and automatically comparing the plates to databases of outstanding warrants, stolen cars and wanted bank robbers…when a license plate is scanned, the driver’s geographic location also is recorded and saved, along with the date and time, each of which amounts to a record or data point. Such data collection occurs regardless of whether the driver is a wanted criminal—and the vast majority are not.

Um, what!? Is that legal? Civil liberties experts are appropriately alarmed. Perhaps you should be too. (via newsweek)

The future is dark.

thedailybeast.com

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    That’s pretty scary. Driving past a car is now considered reasonable suspicion?
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    Normally, I’m all up ons when it comes to limiting police authority and keeping The Man off your back. But this time,...
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    Glad I’m not back in the States. Maybe I’ll never go back… =(
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    I seriously just want to remove myself from everything. Take public transportation everywhere, or bike, or walk. Delete...
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  22. cutlerish said: It sucks, it really does, but aren’t licence plates: a) in plain sight, and b) government property?
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