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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)

Posted by BeauHD on 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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  1. Out west by AntronArgaiv · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suspect they will have issues with bullet holes in the cameras in the western states.

  2. Redacted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How much it's spending on the signs has been redacted.

    That right there. That disgusts me. How dare a government hide such information from the voting public that's paying for it all.