Friday, August 16, 2013

13-08-16 ACLU: You are being tracked - license plate tracking in the US


One must wonder, how much tracking, snooping, eavesdropping would be considered sufficient, if only from cost/effectiveness perspective...  jz 


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Proof the Feds Are Tracking Your Car

By Keegan Hamilton, Salon

A Seattle prankster points out the absurdity of a little-known program that's following where you drive.
As the technology spreads, the ACLU calls for the adoption of legislation and law enforcement agency policies adhering to the following principles:
License plate readers may be used by law enforcement agencies only to investigate hits and in other circumstances in which law enforcement agents reasonably believe that the plate data are relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.
The government must not store data about innocent people for any lengthy period. Unless plate data has been flagged, retention periods should be measured in days or weeks, not months and certainly not years.
People should be able to find out if plate data of vehicles registered to them are contained in a law enforcement agency’s database.
Law enforcement agencies should not share license plate reader data with third parties that do not follow proper retention and access principles. They should also be transparent regarding with whom they share license plate reader data.
Any entity that uses license plate readers should be required to report its usage publicly on at least an annual basis.

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