Neighbor "That takes away my privacy"

[RB TexLa]

My idiot right wing neighbor thinks the government tracking government owned property on government owned or regulated roadways is taking away his privacy.

The ignorance of these people is amazing.





IRS Among agencies that hired license plate-tracking vendor


By Kathleen Miller, Bloomberg News

Bloomberg

3:20 p.m. CDT, April 19, 2014



WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to a license plate-tracking company before Homeland Security leaders dropped a plan for similar work amid privacy complaints.

Federal offices such as the Forest Service and the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command chose Livermore, Calif.-based Vigilant Solutions to provide access to license plate databases or tools used to collect plate information, according to government procurement records compiled by Bloomberg.

Vigilant, a closely held company, has received such work since 2009. In February, Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ordered the cancelation of an immigration agency plan to buy access to national license plate data. While the technology can help solve crimes, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have said the mass collection of data infringes the privacy of innocent people.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-plates19-20140419,0,7330812.story

[OutNow]

1. Also, your idiot left wing DUer objects to government mass tracking

I usually agree with the ACLU. Been a member for 40 years, ever since COINTELPRO was exposed. Google it.

[peacebird]

3. Plus 100

[snappyturtle]

2. The gov't knows enough about us....enough is enough. nt

[msongs]

4. making profit off license plates is a tad dubious IMO nt

[ohheckyeah]

5. I'm surprised they haven't

required us to have tracking systems implanted in our bodies.

These agencies appear to be run by people with a paranoia problem.

[dembotoz]

6. they do not have to -- your smartphone does is for them

[ohheckyeah]

9. Good thing I don't have one. n/t

[DesMoinesDem]

7. Yes, the ignorance of the ACLU is amazing.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. "an immigration agency plan to buy access to national license plate data"

is that saying a GOV immigration agency wants to BUY info from a private company"???????

Why are putting all our public info into the hands of private companies, that's what I do not understand.
Amd spending more to do it, to boot.