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The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data (qz.com)
Zorro shares a report from Quartz: According to recently released U.S. federal contracting data, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be expanding the footprint of its nationwide surveillance network with the purchase of "multiple" trailer-mounted speed displays "to be retrofitted as mobile LPR [License Plate Reader] platforms." The DEA is buying them from RU2 Systems Inc., a private Mesa, Arizona company. How much it's spending on the signs has been redacted. Two other, apparently related contracts, show that the DEA has hired a small machine shop in California, and another in Virginia, to conceal the readers within the signs. An RU2 representative said the company providing the LPR devices themselves is a Canadian firm called Genetec.
I'm giving up on roads. From now own, I will drive everywhere cross country. It will annoy my neighbors, but what the heck, I do that now.
Um, no you don't.
1) In America, the State makes rules at the pleasure of the voters. Full stop. They do not have ANY powers that are not granted from the voters. If you say the state has the Natural power to limit my actions you are wrong. I do NOTHING at the pleasure of the government or all this is just a farce.
2) These terms ARE negotiable. That's why we elect representatives to change our laws.
3) Where are you from?
I would say this SCOTUS ruling does not support that statement:
United States v. Jones - Wikipedia
" using the device to monitor the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment."