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Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com)
Presto Vivace shares a report from The Week with the caption, "And they wonder why some of us prefer to shop online." From the report: Surveillance systems at more than 46 malls in California are capturing license plate information that is fed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported Tuesday. One company, Irvine Company Retail Properties, operates malls all over the state using a security network called Vigilant Solutions. Vigilant shares data with hundreds of law enforcement agencies, insurance companies, and debt collectors -- including ICE, which signed a contract with the security company earlier this year, reports The Verge. "[Irvine Company] is putting not only immigrants at risk, but invading the privacy of its customers by allowing a third-party to hold onto their data indefinitely," EFF wrote in its report, urging the chain of malls to stop providing information to ICE.
A car in a parking lot is not a person. That car might be driven by anyone. This is not private information any more than someone walking around, snapping pictures and later collating the information. It's just automated. You'll have to make a stronger case that this is 'person tracking'.
Agreed. However, you have no idea if poster *does* report other illegal activity.
Heh. You negated your point. Illegal immigrants know it exists, hence all the sneaking over the border.
Right. And go back "home". What could be so bad that they don't want to return to where they were born? Could there really be a situation in the world so bad that it's worse than having to duck ICE? I can't imagine.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Go figure you're a fucking Libertarian, otherwise you'd have actually read some case law and found out that you (much like your bitcoin-swilling scamming kin) that there are plenty of cases where such is outright illegal - Katz v. United States, held that what "a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection ... But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected."
First thing I think of when I hear "Libertarian" is "I don't know the fucking laws that run this country and failed basic civics class" and you demonstrate very fucking clearly why.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Good point and still you were downvoted.
I *want* illegals to be reported and kicked out of the country and the news that any companies are helping out in this regard pleases me.
It's only boggling if you can't imagine more than a one step process. You can't start with disarming the police, but if they are ever sucessful in banning guns from the public they can then make the argument that police no longer need guns.