The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data (qz.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday October 2, 2018 @01:00AM from the keep-your-eyes-peeled dept.

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.

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Only drive off road by jfdavis668 · 2018-10-02 01:10 · Score: 2, Informative

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.
Re:Driving is a privilege, not a right by schwit1 · 2018-10-02 01:53 · Score: 3, Informative

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."