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DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years
An anonymous reader writes with news that might make privacy advocates a bit uneasy. From the article: "Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and two sheriffs are asking permission to install stationary license plate scanners on the freeway in Beaver and Washington counties. The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug traffickers, but at a Utah Legislature committee meeting Wednesday, the sheriffs and a DEA representative described how the scanners also could be used to catch kidnappers and violent criminals. That, however, wasn't the concern of skeptical legislators on the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. They were worried about the DEA storing the data for two years and who would be able to access it."
First they store it for 2 years.. which is terrifying enough.. but we all know that will become 3 years.. then 4.. and before we know it, they'll be storying license plate scans for centuries.
At least future historians will have detailed records on who drove over Interstate 15 in southwest Utah in the 21's century. Of course they'll probably assume the plates represent our names or something..
The two-year storage is really the only part that bothers me. But the actual scanning doesn't, for some reason. I guess because people see my license plate every day anyway. It's a pretty public thing already, and it's government-issued so the only data being collected that they don't already have is my location, but again, any driver on the freeway can already see me. I don't know; usually I'm against most kinds of data harvesting, but for some reason this doesn't bug me as much. I guess because driving in your vehicle is such a publicly identifiable thing anyway, and it is on government property.
> "America is controlled by Mormons"
No, silly! Everyone knows that America is controlled by corporations.
I mean... License plates are state-issued, or can come from a state in a different country (in this case, mostly Mexico or Canada). I do not believe I would be so far off to say that this is fine. There's already things such as the TxTag and Tolltag in the state of Texas. That not only senses your RFID sticker on your windshield, but also takes a picture of your license plate.
The two-year storage seems to be what is at issue here. Who will have access to it and how secure is that database?
Vehicle license plates exist as a means for police to identify a car when the need arises. Now we have automated systems that are capable of identifying EVERY car, and the police want to deploy these systems. This will result in millions of car license plate database searches on law abiding citizens with no probable cause. In addition, the police will record the time and place where each vehicle was spotted to develop a search-able intelligence database. They can perform queries on the database to identify frequent travellers, and harass them when their suspicions are aroused. Many police agencies are already doing this and it needs to stop.
State Departments of Transportation's already have this information available, do they not? It may vary from state to state slightly, but for the most part it's there. Does the DEA not have access to State vehicle registration information, or is this solely a need for at will, at moment, field identification?
Sounds like just another power push to a 'Big Government' , when the infrastructure and legalese is already in place. That and the DEA is fairly useless for its intended purpose. I fail to see how giving the DEA this authority, gets less drugs stopped at the border or causes politicians to either re-evaluation drug scheduling, or current criminilization status'.
Hooray for continued failed policy-making!!!
Sorry Utah, but I think I will bypass your state from now on (if you allow this). All we need is more "Big Brother" surveillance of innocent people who may want to keep their whereabouts private, and for perfectly legitimate (and legal) reasons! Tracking plates on the US/Mexico border is only slightly less onerous, but hundreds of miles away from the immediate border area? That's simply frightful! FWIW, I was once the subject of a Mafia "contract". Needless to say, having my whereabouts known, and for no good reason, and that can be suborned by those whose interests are inimical to mine, is not something I would like to have happen... :-(
The corporations control the government. We should consider giving the government more power...to fix this... somehow.
Well if you're not a drug runner, then you have nothing to hide. Ergo since you have something to hide you must be a drug runner, so lets do away with the surveillance and arrest you already. Because the surveillance already bypasses your privacy rights ON THE BASIS THAT YOU ARE LIKELY A DRUG RUNNER.
Treat everyone like criminals and you reduced the benefit of not being a criminal. If you make the whole country like a jail, then freedom is reduced with it.
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If a banker lends an entrepreneur money, is the banker creating the jobs, or is the entrepreneur? If the banker made less money wouldn't the entrepreneur be able to create more jobs? So why is Mitt Romney claiming to be a job creator and not a money lender?
How will this turn out? Let's see.
Eenie meenie, chili beanie...
1) DEA installs license plate scanners.
2) Police stop vehicles which fit the profile of drug smuggling.
3) Years pass. Many, many innocent people's rights are violated
4) Police find drugs in some stopped car, arrests are made.
5) Plaintiffs complain that police had no right to stop car based on profile
6) ACLU gets involved. Appeal goes to federal court.
7) Federal court overturns conviction on grounds that there was no probable cause (or not - this is Utah, after all)
8) Case is presented to supreme court. Supreme court upholds 4th amendment, license scanning is not probable cause.
End result: Many innocent people have their rights violated, some arrests are made. About a million dollars are spent on one case to bring it to the supreme court, ten years of some person's life is lost fighting it, and eventually the DEA is told to stop. During this time, drug smuggling is reduced by less than one part in a million. Millions of dollars spent on the system are wasted when the system is dismantled.
For once, can we please just cut to the chase? Just stop these idiots from the beginning and a whole lot of people will save a whole lot of effort, money, time, and grief.
... they have a bunch of those things (though the UK has more and more extensive storage, of course), and it turns out (very recently in the news) the data is Just Too Much to act upon when it signals wanted criminals passing the scanners. They're claiming they Just Don't Have The Manpower available to go after all that real-time data. One wonders how they then can possibly find the time to look in the backlog, which contains much, much more data, overwhelmingly pertaining to people who've done exactly nothing wrong. Curiously, they suddenly do have plenty manpower to pursue unpaid fines and taxes.
Ahh yes, the ardent American Citizen, sitting there able to do nothing while the value of his shitty little Dollar drops year after year, his bankers and his own Government are blatantly and openly lying and stealing from him and doing and end run around his precious Constitutional Rights with Wars on Ideas -- and he clings to his gun saying "I can at least defend myself from them if it gets to that" -- ignoring the fact that his Government has enough weaponry to quickly turn any Popular Revolt with their tiny pea shooters into a grease stain in short order -- and even then, every Congressional session has new talk of attempts to enact laws to outlaw or further restrict ownership of peashooters -- just be on the safe side, it is after all best not to take risks.
What will it take for the Ardent American to use his precious armaments? Government Cameras up his ass? Face it -- you are a slave. Go to school, pass your exams, indenture yourself to a College, get a job, be useful, be productive, consume and create more consumers to replace you.
Your rights, your guns, your "freedom" -- are little more than a novelty meant to humor you.
More wars on American Citizens have been enacted in the last 30 years than wars against enemy nations.
Time to get rid of the DEA. They just keep thinking up new ways to pry into our lives with the intent of ensuring the purity of our bodily fluids.
Billions of taxpayers' dollars are spent on these yahoos every year and what do we get out of it. Money spent so they can set quotas on the production of medicines and now we have shortages of common medications for the treatment of pain, cancer, and mental disorders.
This has become very personal for me. Because of an injury from military service I get my pain medications from the VA clinic in town. Since it is a controlled substance the physician can only write a prescription for 30 days. The VA clinic has a nice system where I just go into the office and fill out a form so the physician can rubber stamp the prescription for the next month. I have it pretty good, relatively. I feel sorry for those that don't have their meds handed out by the government.
I can only imagine what someone else, someone that has to get the same meds by a private entity. Would they have to schedule a face to face examination with their physician every month? How much would that cost them? Would any insurance company cover the cost of providing a monthly supply of narcotics for a condition that existed prior to signing up for their plan?
I've heard all kinds of horror stories of people that happened to be caught with a pill bottle, or just a single pill, that a friend or relative had forgotten and was left in the person's car, bag, or apartment. Being in the possession of a controlled substance is a felony unless prescribed by a physician. Do we want people to get sent to prison for five years because they tried to return the medicine that grandma left behind when she went to see her grandkids?
FTFA:
"I'll be quite frank with you," Oda told Newcomb. "A lot of us in Utah don't trust the federal government."
I don't either. They claim they won't use this database for the purpose of enforcing misdemeanors and traffic violations. What keeps them from breaking this promise?
I can see this already, someone will get the great idea of placing two of these along a well traveled route. The computers controlling these two stations will be connected together to compute the average speed of anyone that crosses these two points. Automatic speeding tickets will get mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that would happen if these license plate scanners get installed.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Defund the DEA. People are going to get high. The only real questions are:
1. How much will it cost to treat the health problems that causes?
2. Who is going to get the money from selling the drugs?
With DEA in place, the answer to question (2) is that the DEA splits it with cartels and some small fish while raping the taxpayers. The health costs are born by everybody else. Tax the drugs, and the money will go to the government. Drugs (in the absence of health problems) become a profit center for the people instead of a cost center. Of course some drugs will cause health problems. The rational answer to that is to figure out how much it costs to treat them, and tax the drugs enough to pay for them. There might be some cases where the tax isn't enough to cover the health costs without re-creating the black market. I really don't know. Does the tax on alcohol, a perfectly legal substance, come anywhere near paying for the health problems it causes? What about the health problems it helps (yep, it's good in moderation). Some drugs will bring in more money than they cost in health problems (pot). Others will probably not bring in much money, but will cause serious health problems (meth). It ought to be possible to balance the cash cows against the losers. First things first though:
Defund the DEA, reduce the national debt, quit wasting time, money, and lives.
Public roads are public property, not government property, however much they pay for maintaining it (with your tax dollars). Keeping track of where you've been, when, is not something to systematically collect and store without a good reason to do so, however much any member of the public could legally do so. There's a difference between being legal and being desirable, even though American culture likes to stand on the very edges of what's still legal and then loudly proclaim it's a god-given right to push the limits to the max. Law enforcement likes to do that just as much as any other American. As such there possibly should be a law against the practice of collecting as much data as you can.
The storing amounts to creating a movement database. What reasons does law enforcement have for such a thing? Merely "could come in handy someday" isn't good enough. In fact, the same goes for CCTV (increasingly so with progressing image recognition and tracking technology); just watch and signal I might buy, but storing? Not for a minute, sorry.
Theoretically, I might be okay with just having the cameras without storing, but it's becoming increasingly clear that very few governments indeed, and whether they're "democratic" or not seems to have little if any influence, can be trusted to have data and then keep their promises to not also store it. Just look at all the passenger data the TSA is demanding and then storing for tens of years. What do they want with all that? They're not going to distill anything useful from it, rather the contrary. At best, more lists of badness that don't actually keep anyone at bay except a couple innocents and the odd senator. This system won't be any different.
You must be up to no good if you're repeatedly, willingly going to Utah.
This is a great idea. It can also be used to catch illegal aliens who are stealing American jobs and selling drugs destroying our American way of life. Not only will it help to catch ilegal aliens, it will also help to build up cases against other types of criminal ilk that belong behind bars. These "privacy advocats" are just a bunch of bleeding heart liberals who care nothing about our country but rather more about letting criminals get off easy.
Sounds like the DEA's biggest mistake was asking for permission. They should just go ahead and authorize themselves to do the scanning and data retention, and then shove it down our throats for our own good.
... is already available and in use.
Or do you think that speed/red-light cameras as well as "toll both scanners" are just dumb devices that some Joe Blow spends the day looking at on a monitor?
Even the 2 year retention is not new either. That is probably the minimum amount of time the data is kept by default.
You know, the Mormon Fundie types that marry 14 year olds and such...
My horse has no license plate. Can these cameras read a brand?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90wnuWo6jk
Shows the driver face capture, plate capture, passenger face capture and network link on one small roadside camera setting.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Copyright the sequence of letters and numbers that comprise your license plate. Even better, make it a personalized license plate that demonstrates your creativity, and have the design officially recorded at the US Copyright Office. If you have the ability, develop an algorithm that you can fit on a license plate, and submit your application to the US Patent Office. Now set up a website where users pay a fee to see your license plate. Make it known to the world that you will be engaging in performance art by driving to undisclosed locations where a few lucky souls can see your license plate for free. You are doing this to generate interest in your license plate contents and market your copyrighted works and/or patented technology. Occasionally invite random people to take "live" pictures of your performance art for a flat fee of $500 per photo. Sell mass-marketed photos of your license plate online for a nominal fee of only $250 per download.
Now, fast forward to the moment you "discover" that various public and private servers are storing and possibly even distributing the copyrighted and/or patented information without your express written permission and without paying the artist/inventor. Whine to the MPAA, RIAA, or some other B.S.AA and take the sons of bitches to court for $20k per violation.
There should be a story about this on Slashdot: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-21-21/bipartisan-congressional-bill-would-authorize-use-propaganda-americans-living?page=1
Real men don't need signitures!!!
Not unlike Godwin's Law about discussions degenerating until someone pulls the nazi card, a similar law exists about privacy-eroding proposals: Argue that in order to protect us against something really bad (terrorists, drug trafficking etc.) we need X, which incidentally also can help protect us against some almost as bad (kidnappers, violent criminals etc.), thus offering us a multi-pronged tool that can do almost everything against the badness out there. Scared people loves stuff like this.
But they forget to mention that it will also be very effective in taking away more of our freedom by offering a tool that essentially can be used to both track our movements and serve as the core of a police state where the authorities in real time came can both identify, track and easily apprehend people for anything, like parking tickets, expired license plates and everything else you put your mind to. Flag someone and you can easily locate and thus apprehend this person.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
As if drug traffickers always use the same vehicles....
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
We tried this in Holland and it doesn't work. 200 cameras were installed in the Rotterdam region to catch criminals, but a recent report showed the police is NOT using it to catch criminals, because they have no clue what to do with all the data. Instead, the tax agency uses the cameras to go after unpaid taxes and unpaid fines. Installing cameras will lead to function creep, loss of privacy and another step towards a POLICE STATE. See http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/543419/1/1/50/kentekencamera-pakt-geen-criminelen.html&usg=ALkJrhhvrWudYxPDrjVbVqd1Tm317MS-MQ
They already know that the drugs are going by that road. They already stop people when they are suspect. What is scanning plates going to change, except violate peoples privacy and cost money? What is the cost-benefit analysis of this whole thing? If they don't publish that, it's either not researched and should never be allowed, or it's so bad that if it were to become public, nobody would want it to happen.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Well well, we are anyways moving full speed ahead to implement a police state! Then our motto can be, "America, the land of the free where you are watched 24x7 for your own safety"!
One more reason to cycle.
... maybe I do not need all this illegal money that much ...".
The compulsory bicycle helmet and glasses make also face-recognition impossible.
Cycling is also good for physical shape and moral. Even a criminal may think: "...wait a minute, I can move around for free, I have an excellent physical shape now, I am constantly in good mood, I eat less,
Do you think this troll is a competitor, trying to make us all hate MyFuckingCleanPc?
> "America is controlled by Mormons"
No, silly! Everyone knows that America is controlled by corporations.
And LDS is one of the biggest
This is yet another example of the prosecution of the drug war infringing on the rights, not only of the people who want to buy and sell the drugs, but everyone else. The time is well past to end the damn thing. Pursuing it costs way too much money, disrupts too many innocent lives, violates free market principles, diverts law enforcement/judicial/penal resources from actual crimes, provides riches and power to murderous gangs who otherwise wouldn't exist, encourages similar (if less violent) government interference with other items (tobacco, fat, salt, etc) and warps US foreign policy. Hell, it even hinders our efforts to fight terrorists -- things would be a lot easier in Afghanistan if we weren't pissing off the locals by trying to interfere with their opium production.
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
As opposed to what exactly? Trying to make us LIKE other malware scam sites?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
America is controlled by Morons. There, I fixed it for you.
The government insists that motor vehicles have at least one licence plate that is easily readable, and that you have that on display whenever you're on the public roads. Anyone could sit beside the roads, and write down licence plate numbers. It's boring as hell. Trainspotters do this with locomotive numbers at railway stations. Plane spotters do this with aircraft registrations at airports. In most countries, this requires no special permission or legislation. Co-incidentally, those countries that do require prior permission to do this sort of thing are themselves heading towards being a police state. All the DEA are doing is automating this mundane task. This is already done for other purposes all over the place. Fuel filling stations use ANPR to deny fuel to known fuel thieves, car parks use ANPR instead of passes for private car parks. Of course, once the criminals work out what capturing and analysing images of licence plates is done to analyse criminal behaviour and catch criminals, they will work around it by having fake plates. The added complexity here is whether a licence plate identifies an individual. There's parallels to IP addresses here. You can often infer that an IP address is one usually used by an individual, but you cannot prove that it was only that individual using that IP address. In most places, the licence plate identifies the vehicle, not the driver - though there's often a near 1:1 correlation. In countries with strong personal data privacy laws, there may be requirements to purge records of almost-personally-identifying records after a short period.
Ooops! Looks like they forgot to add: child molestors, Al Qaida, people who litter, scofflaws in general, the Abominable Snowman, Chupacabra, the Loch Ness Monster, et alia...
Bobby Tables apparently got his driver's license.
"The good part is that Utah has the lowest unemployment. Coincidence?"
No coincidence, nobody wants to live there. ...and your wife? ....and your wife?
All that Salt and no booze, what do you do all day? Listen to your wife?
""America is controlled by Morons"
You accidentally typed an extra M in there.
The above snippet explains the Entire Congress perfectly, so I am assuming that is what you meant.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Is controlled by Jooz.
Big brother is watching...
Government loves databases.
In Vermont they made one of prescription drugs and promised it would be kept confidential and never allowed to the police without warrant.
Shoot forward to today, just a few years later, and we find that the Governor, police and many legislators are trying to give the police full open access to the above database without any silly requirement to get warrants.
Justification, some bad people might exist.
Constitutional rights of innocent people? Just trample them... Oh, please. What's wrong with these people who want privacy. Jeezum crow.
London put multiple cameras on every block including 8 within 30 paces of the apartment where 1984 was written.
They developed a sophisticated face recognition scanner.
The total system employeed 10s of thousands of people and cost billions of pounds.
So far they've prevented 0 that is to say no violent crimes. In fact violent crime is up since they installed it.
What they've used it for is a new tax, where they charge you to drive to work as well as parking.
Oh, they also used it to identify political protesters.
Don't travel abroad if License Plate Scanning bothers you. Google it, boys. Most countries now do it on all their borders, in the least. Users (countries) don't always advertise it but the makers of License Plate Scanning systems are all over the web. You guys need to travel more. Welcome to the rest of the world.
Highway surveillance is outright prohibited here.
Liberty in your lifetime
Government is not the people, and the people are not government.
(Can we finally put this to rest now?)
The DEA has had little white trailers with high definition visible and thermal imaging camera at almost every internal boarder check point in AZ, TX and NM for two years or so.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/091479-2011-06-11-dea-dhs-topd-surveillance-along-az-sr86.htm
I remember seeing a segment on 'Daily Planet' perhaps back when it was still '@Discovery.ca' on a Toronto car-mounted system which was in use to recover reportedly-stolen vehicles and more than 1 hit-and-run case. Google will know which segment it was-IIRC it was a Shannon Bentley piece and showed the officers perspective as to what was visible through the camera footage.
Ever notice that Cobra Commander sounds an awful lot like Star scream?
that we completely legalize all recreational drugs, and:
1) Remove at least part of the reason to continuously violate the 4th amendment
2) Remove at least part of the reason that this country incarcerates more than any other nation
3) Remove at least part of the reason that we spend hideous amounts of money on law enforcement
4) Remove at least part of the reason for criminal gangs in America
The drug laws create far more problems than they solve, and dismantling the protections of the Constitution is just one of them. Stray bullets killing kids in ghettos as drug gangs fight over territory is absolutely unacceptable, while those who desire the drugs still get all the drugs the want anyway. We have lost the war on drugs, which has been true for a couple decades now, so its time to admit it and quit making war on citizens' freedom in the name of attempting to win the impossible victory.
Really, as those cameras are made by some corporation, I'd think any republican would be glad to lose a little privacy to help some poor shareholders. Let's hear it for capitalism!
The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug traffickers, but at a Utah Legislature committee meeting Wednesday, the sheriffs and a DEA representative described how the scanners also could be used to catch kidnappers and violent criminals.
How long will it be until they lower the freeway speed limit "for safety," place two scanners a few miles apart on the highway, use the data to calculate your average velocity, and then send you an automated speeding ticket?
Of course, the primary purpose of the system will be to catch drug traffickers and child molesters for your safety, but the state would like the secondary objective to be profit.
This reeks of a government scare tactic to increase state authority at the expense of citizen privacy. If law enforcement wants to build a case against someone, they should either do some detective work or get a warrant. Citizen tracking is not a palatable in a free and open country.
in ontario alone at 11 million people it rakes in nearly 6 billion profits a year
seeing how the usa is 250 million people if you modeled it like canada....120-130 billion or so now think drugs and tobacco
yup a lot a coin had all round and in dope were all missing out.
FACT is pot does so little damage and its the meth and crack that do the worst damage....
OK, I'll admit it's hardly an epidemic among police departments. When I googled it, most of the stories seem to point to this one case:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-connecticut-judge-rules-that-police-can-bar-high-iq-scores.html
Still, it has happened that someone was denied employment as a police officer due to their high IQ score.
Clearly, this is another example of technology eliminating jobs in the spying, informing and snitching sectors. Don't let big business and big government send American jobs to offshore data interpretation centers!
Here in Arizona, law enforcement is now devoting more time to catching the people driving south with suitcases full of cash. Now there's your Robin Hood method.
But aside from this, all this scanner business will do is force the drivers to go up US-89 which is a less traveled road anyway.
I-15 through Utah carries something like 60% of the drugs coming out of LA destined for the rest of the country. You might not be familiar with the geography but unless you are willing to drive on 300+ miles of dirt roads I-15 and I-10 are the only reasonable transit corridors out of LA to the rest of the country (unless you wanna drive from LA to Sacramento and come out on I-80).
How can I-15 carry 60% of the drug traffic out of L.A. when the gooberment claims that I-40 carries 70% and I-10 carries 50% and I-8 carries 40%?
New gooberment math?
The US military couldn't put down a popular revolt *in the US*. The US military has a difficult time with insurgencies. Take a read about Operation Vigilant Resolve in retaking Fallujah. Now, do you really think the military could convince it's rank and file to fight with that kind of violent enthusiasm in the towns and cities they've lived and worked? It takes a lot more than weapons.
46 & 2
Walking down the sidewalk in NY, I have no expectation of privacy, but I do have an expectation of disinterest.
Not at all. Today, in 2012, you must now accept the reality to have the expectation to be stopped and searched/frisked by any one of NY's cops for absolutely no reason at all. Just because they can. It doesn't even matter if that's legal under the US Constitution or not anymore.
How do you like them apples, in the Big Apple now?
Automatic Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a rapidly expanding program piloted in the Canadian province of British Columbia. They want to keep a record of when and where your vehicle is seen travelling throughout the province for at least 2 years. The officer in charge of the program can't say how that information could be/will be used, but wants it all anyways "just in case".
The program is in flagrant violation of Canada's privacy laws, but unfortunately the federal and provincial privacy commissioners can only advise: if a government organization decides not to obey the law, the commissioners don't have the ability to enforce compliance.
Or they could just legalize Marijuana and tax it, thus avoiding this huge expense and tracking effort.
and just arrest everyone.
you misspelled Moron's
Cheap storage VM.
When they made it illegal to buy "too much" Sudafed within a certain period, the first person to be arrested was a guy who bought enough to last his kid through summer camp.
Real meth cookers know not to buy too much in a traceable manner over the counter, so it's not likely to catch an actual criminal. But some dad worried about his kid's allergies sure got nailed.
Gwinnett County Georgia has been using the scanners....sitting on the side of the road and pulling over anyone with expired plates, old tickets, etc. If your birthday is March 15th and you had a March 2012 stickler, you used to be able to get away with waiting until the end of the month to renew. Not anymore - if you get scanned on the 16th with that "March" sticker, your ass is in for a fine. And expired tags is the quickest way to lose your license in Georgia. It's such a ridiculous money grab.
All you guys upset about this, please relax - for now.
As long as there is a Democrat in the White House, Utah's Republican legislature will not allow this to happen.
Now if a Republican gets in to the White House, you can sit back and watch as they fall over themselves justifying this.
Actually, what they mostly want to do is give the license plate numbers to the LDS Church so they can look up your name & address & send their missionaries to your house to proselytize!
Utah is where the gov data center is being. Helps keep the latency down.
Now, fast forward to the moment you "discover" that various public and private servers are storing and possibly even distributing the copyrighted and/or patented information without your express written permission and without paying the artist/inventor. Whine to the MPAA, RIAA, or some other B.S.AA and take the sons of bitches to court for $20k per violation.
Pro-tip: RIAA and the ilk only care about their member artists, meaning the livestock they own.