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DHS Cancels Plan For National License Plate Tracking System
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2014 12:25 -0500
Fresh on the heels of the administration's decision to embed "government researchers" in the mainstream media to make sure they are doing their job properly (just as Maduro has decreed in Venezuela and punished CNN for?), we find out that the Department of Homeland Security planned to outsource the creation of a gigantic, comprehensive nationwide license plate database to a private corporation enabling license plate recognition "to catch illegal immigrants." However, after extreme pushback by privacy advocates, WaPo reports the DHS has cancelled the plan amid "a serious management problem within this DHS component that currently does not have a director nominated by the president."
Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog describes the original plan...
The status quo is now overtly doubling down on surveillance in the wake of the Snowden revelations rather than reigning them in. Game is on folks. Things are getting very serious.
Read the rest here:
DHS Cancels Plan For National License Plate Tracking System | Zero Hedge
-Geaux
DHS Cancels Plan For National License Plate Tracking System
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2014 12:25 -0500
Fresh on the heels of the administration's decision to embed "government researchers" in the mainstream media to make sure they are doing their job properly (just as Maduro has decreed in Venezuela and punished CNN for?), we find out that the Department of Homeland Security planned to outsource the creation of a gigantic, comprehensive nationwide license plate database to a private corporation enabling license plate recognition "to catch illegal immigrants." However, after extreme pushback by privacy advocates, WaPo reports the DHS has cancelled the plan amid "a serious management problem within this DHS component that currently does not have a director nominated by the president."
Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog describes the original plan...
The status quo is now overtly doubling down on surveillance in the wake of the Snowden revelations rather than reigning them in. Game is on folks. Things are getting very serious.
Read the rest here:
DHS Cancels Plan For National License Plate Tracking System | Zero Hedge
