The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was spying on drivers using license plate readers to track vehicles and store millions of motorists data since 08 (mostly near the Mexican border to fight against drugs entering the United States). However, what was not known to the public until recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, is that the DEA was spying on drivers using the players to build a huge database of drivers data for authorities federal and local "through the United States."
Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) language The Wall Street Journal said: "It is unacceptable that the technology with such potential large scale would be deployed in such secrecy. People may disagree on exactly how we should use these powerful surveillance technology, but it should be decided democratically, it should not be done in secret. "
Big Brother State
The DEA was spying on drivers, hoovering up huge amounts of data motorists using license plate readers and providing access to local law enforcement so they can track vehicles in real time to the fight against crime, including kidnappings and murders.
However, this totalitarianist movement raises the question of privacy, and lack of transparency not to inform motorists about how their information may be used.
Senator Patrick Leahy, senior Democrat Senate judicial Committee said the Wall Street Journal that the use of readers license plate "raises significant privacy concerns. the fact that this technology is intrusive potentially be used to extend the reach of government confiscation of assets efforts is even more worrying. "He added that Americans should not have to fear that" their location and movements are constantly monitored and stored in a massive database of government. "
Drivers in states likely to be captured by the license plate readers that have been placed in key areas on public roads as much as 70 percent of local service US police are already using them! The data collected by the readers say authorities time you moved your car, and the direction and location of where you go. and if that was not scary enough, according to documents from the DEA, some of these high-tech devices can also capture much more than your license plate - they can identify all passengers in a vehicle
Some say that we should welcome increased oversight if it means that the authorities can take action against! crime - if you do not commit a crime, what is the problem
While others fear that the extent of monitoring intrusive measure is yet another example that our right to privacy is being taken away by Big Brother snooping State increasingly in the private lives of every day.
How about you feeling the DEA spying on drivers in the United States? Are you concerned by this news, do you feel that your basic right to privacy is in danger? We'd love to hear your thoughts on this, so please let us know by commenting below.
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