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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by moonka on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:00PM (#16241912)
> For civil liberties groups, the implications go far beyond immigration. “There are people circulating in our society who are undocumented,” says senior policy analyst Jay Stanley, who studies license plate readers with the ACLU. “Are we as a society, out of our desire to find those people, willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us?”

It seems we are hurtling towards a scary state of affairs faster than I would have ever guessed. I remember hearing an outcry about police cars using these type of scanners a few years ago, but I guess by now the outcry has died down.

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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by netsharc on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:27PM (#16242590)
Incredible huh, it's also due to the acceleration of technology. If you wanted to do this in, say the 1970's, you'd have to hire someone to follow each car. With video cameras with good enough resolution you can start recording things, but someone would still have to watch them, or review the recordings manually. Now, computers can read licence plates and recognizes individuals from their faces, they can have eyes (cameras) everywhere and they don't need sleep. And Petabytes of storage are affordable.

Was it DHS that had drones constantly recording Cleveland from the air, and if something happens they can just rewind the footage to see who, where they came from, etc? (Also being used in warzones, IIRC)

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