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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by pnw on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:28PM (#45997270)
None of this is new. The article states that CBP got authorization to track license plates in 2017 and concerns about law enforcement use of ALPR date back to at least 2010. The ACLU sued the LAPD in 2013 on ALPR.
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by dragonwriter on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:39PM (#45997394)
The particular manner in which it is being used can be different even if the fact that is being used by CBP is not.
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by ActorNightly on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:50PM (#45997529)
>CBP got authorization to track license plates in 2017

who was president in 2017?

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by spicyusername on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:34PM (#45997341)
I mean, the last 20 years is only ~8% of the history of the U.S., so all things considered those changes are pretty "new".
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by pnw on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:36PM (#45997368)
Sure, but the OP was specifically referring to party politics and this is a bipartisan issue.
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by peterashford on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:40PM (#45997409)
"detaining those with suspicious travel patterns" is new
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by potato3732842 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:41PM (#45999899)
No it is not. The DEA has been doing that since at least the 2nd Bush admin and probably would've been under Clinton or Bush 1 had the tech existed at the time.
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by nawgz on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:17PM (#45997875)
> this is a bipartisan issue

Where the instance upthread and your instance both occurred under the same president? lol

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by root_axis on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:22PM (#45997936)
The part that's new is people being detained for "suspicious" traffic patterns.
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by jasonfarnon on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:13PM (#45998564)
Is it? or is the new part that it's being reported? This "news" just looks like an investigation AP conducted on its own. Could they have conducted it years ago, and what would they have found then?
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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by potato3732842 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:39PM (#45999886)
This. TFA barely glanced at it but they mentioned "collaboration with the DEA".

The DEA has been jerking off about how they've been doing this stuff on the east coast corridor for over a decade.

The current CBP situation is basically a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V of what DEA was doing under Bush and Obama.

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by estearum on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:26PM (#45998700)
Historically CBP isn't patrolling the entire country, so yeah, at least the scale and reach is definitely new.
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