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Navy Database Tracks Civilians' Parking Tickets, Fender-Benders

Posted by timothy on from the great-now-you're-on-the-paranoid-list dept.

schwit1 (797399) writes with this excerpt from the Washington Examiner: "A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement in a minor fender-bender are enough to get a person's name and other personal information logged into a massive, obscure federal database run by the U.S. military. The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, has already amassed 506.3 million law enforcement records ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred."

3 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Relevant by The+Cat · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  2. The Army is spying on people too by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is not the database, the problem is who's running it. The military has zero business spying on civilians. The CiA doesn't like the competition.

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    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
  3. 1996 by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I enlisted in '96, I was asked why I didn't inform anyone that I was pulled over in 1995. I was questioned as to why I was pulled over and what happened. I didn't think anything of it.

    I was not issued any citation for being pulled over as it was a case of mistaken identity. Still, the Navy had a record of it.