Neighbor "That takes away my privacy" [View all]
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
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