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ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US
Presto Vivace shares a report from The Verge: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has officially gained agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database, according to a contract finalized earlier this month. The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking, raising significant concerns from civil libertarians. The source of the data is not named in the contract, but an ICE representative said the data came from Vigilant Solutions, the leading network for license plate recognition data. While it collects few photos itself, Vigilant Solutions has amassed a database of more than 2 billion license plate photos by ingesting data from partners like vehicle repossession agencies and other private groups. ICE agents would be able to query that database in two ways. A historical search would turn up every place a given license plate has been spotted in the last five years, a detailed record of the target's movements. That data could be used to find a given subject's residence or even identify associates if a given car is regularly spotted in a specific parking lot.
Presto Vivace adds, "This will not end well."
Poison the well.
Undersized 'license plate' looking magnetic stickers, with rearrangeable #s. Different enough the cops can't fuck with you, but big enough to be readable.
Also: Light machine oil on your plates and no car washes. Dirt will collect...sorry officer, I'll fix that right now.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
We have a specific Right of Privacy in this state.
You can't even put a GPS locator on a car without a specific INDIVIDUAL court order by a JUDGE here.
This is a clear violation.
Expect to be sued - successfully - by our State Attorney General.
He's 22 for 22 so far.
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Why take someone else's when you can just make your own instead. It seems to be working really well for all of these people. Just make sure to keep yelling "I do not consent" or inform the police that you are an article 4 free inhabitant when you get pulled over. Works like a charm.
The only "suffering" you underwent during the Obama Administration was, "ZOMG! A nibbar President. TEH SKIEZ IZ FALLINGZ!!" It's certainly most honest and likely healthier for you if you just admit it.