Remember when the first red light cameras went up? Like sheep most Americans went along with it and said nothing allowing the government to trample on their liberty. A couple of years ago I read an article claiming the car companies will soon begin installing some sort of tracking device (under the government's purview) on all new cars. Sure, I know some will say...If you have your cell phone they know where you are anyway. But that's not the point! If I'm going to Home Depot to buy kitchen cabinets (my current project) is that any business of the freaking federal government?
I read the new NSA facility in Utah
listens to your phone calls and reads your emails in real time as you're typing. This was in the news cycle a few days and quickly dissipated. You would have thought an intrusion of this magnitude would have shook the pillars of our society. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
One day you'll report to a government facility to have a micro-chip implanted under your skin. They'll tell you... it's painless and for your own good. Go ahead and laugh.
But slowly as our liberties are taken away piece by piece, year by year, the sheep in the flock will come to the realization of what the founding fathers warned us about. By then it will be to late.
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(Reuters)
The Justice Department has acknowledged constructing a database to track the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S. in real time.
The program, whose existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is primarily overseen by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to combat drug trafficking near the U.S.-Mexico border. However, government emails indicate that the agency has been working to expand the database throughout the United States over the past several years.
A Justice Department spokesman told Fox News that the tracking program is compliant with federal, claiming it "includes protocols that limit who can access the database and all of the license plate information is deleted after 90 days." In 2012, a DEA agent testified before a House subcommittee that the program was inaugurated in December 2008 and information gathered by it was available to federal, state, and local law enforcement organizations.
It is not clear whether the tracking is overseen or approved by any court.
According to the Journal, the DEA program uses high-tech cameras placed on major highways to collect information on vehicle movements, including location and direction. Many of the devices are able to record images of drivers and passengers, some of which are clear enough identify individuals. Documents seen by the Journal also show that the DEA uses information from federal, state, and local license plate readers to burnish their own program.
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.
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