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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by masonic on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:27PM (#16244678)
"Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, allowing police to force blood tests on DUI suspects, search warrants via text messages, police confiscation of property with no guilty verdict..."

... all of which were in widespread practice well before the current administration.

The ACLU did, to their credit, blog about these issues throughout the Obama administration[0], although they got far less attention in the mainstream media or HN back then.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/search/%22license%20plate%22?page=2&f%5...

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Re:ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US by nickthemagicman on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:36AM (#16245260)
I'm saying in the last 35 years these have all become widespread.

Not any particular administration...

It's just a steady decline in civil rights.

The ACLU blogs about a ton of amazing issues all the time. Their blog should deff be a periodic read.

My current favorite is the scary election commission Trump tried to establish that kept all of its meetings secret..

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