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WND EXCLUSIVE
License plate locations tracked, details stored
Police feed info on millions to intelligence 'fusion centers'
Published: 2 days ago
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Apparently the government not only is monitoring telephone activity, maintaining back-door access to computers and networks and photographing mail, it is recording where your vehicle’s license plate is seen – and storing the details.
The report comes from the Center for Investigative Reporting, which explained in an online posting that police officers can gain insight into who are your friends, where you shop, where you work, where you go to church and whether you go to political meetings based on the tracking of your car.
The report, from website contributor Ali Winston, cited the situation for computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe of San Leandro, Calif. He found out that police there had photographed his two cars on 112 occasions, including once in 2009 when he and his daughters were exiting the car in their own driveway.
That, he told CIR, made him “frightened and concerned about the magnitude of police surveillance and data collection.”
The report said police agencies, at least throughout California, are collecting records on drivers by the millions and feeding them to intelligence “fusion centers.”
According to the report, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center recently signed an agreement with a company called Palantir to built a database of license plate records across 14 counties.
Contract documents uncovered by the center revealed the database can handle 100 million records – and be readily accessible to law enforcement.
The report said law enforcement agencies all across the region are working on similar projects.
“It’s new technology, we’re learning as we go, but it works 100 times better than driving around looking for license plates with your eyes,” Lt. Randall Brandt of the San Leandro police told the center.