rmstein@ieee.org
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 10:15:35 +0800
"The DEA launched its National License Plate Reader Program in 2008; it was publicly revealed for the first time during a congressional hearing four years after that. The DEA's most recent budget describes the program as 'a federation of independent federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement license plate readers linked into a cooperative system, designed to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to interdict drug traffickers, money launderers or other criminal activities on high drug and money trafficking corridors and other public roadways throughout the U.S.,' primarily along the southwest border region, and the country's northeast and southeast corridors.
"There used to be an old police saying, 'If you robbed a bank, please drive carefully,' former NYPD Detective Sergeant and Bronx Cold Case Squad commander Joseph Giacalone told Quartz, explaining that if a getaway driver didn't do anything to attract the attention of police and get pulled over, they usually had a half-decent chance of fleeing. 'But that's no longer in effect because you can drive slow, you can stop at every red light, but these license plate readers and surveillance cameras track your every movement."
The Panopticon has been activated. Will the US Health and Human Services tap
into this database to identify and penalize obese citizens who travel to '31
Flavors' and are reliant on Medicare or other government entitlement
programs?