A recent story about automatic license plate readers (ALPR) revealed that police departments in numerous states share your license plate data without a warrant.
Three days ago an article in the Orange Leader, revealed how police in Texas share motorists ALPR data with law enforcement in other states.
“Law enforcement agencies equipped with license-plate readers share collected data, even across state lines in pursuit of drug traffickers, individuals with outstanding warrants, stolen vehicles, or other activities of interest.”
What does law enforcement mean by ‘other activities of interest’?
Two years ago, I revealed that ‘other activities of interest’ is just a euphemism for police hotlists.
These hotlists can include things like traffic scofflaws, ICE alert lists, ‘terrorist watch lists’ and secret watch lists, like the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System.
Police boast of sharing license plate data without a warrant…
“No longer does an officer have to take a stack of warrants and go door-to-door in the hopes of tracking someone down,” Police Chief Rod Carroll said.
As far as I can tell only 14 states have statutes regulating ALPR useage.
Police are also using Pay-By-Plate toll road ALPR’s to create a massive database.
But it doesn’t end there; law enforcement also has access to other ALPR databases.
Updated 1/31:
DHS/ICE admits license plate readers violate our Constitution and privacy
According to a DHS/ICE document titled the ‘Acquisition and Use of License Plate Reader Data from a Commercial Service’. ICE recognizes that there are potential privacy risks and impacts on individual rights associated with the collection, use, and retention of LPR data.
These include:
(3) A license plate image or read may be incomplete or inaccurate,because the license plate is bent, dirty, or damaged, or because the software or individual reading the numbers makes an error. This can result in the misidentification of a vehicle and its occupants. (Click here to read more.)
Repo agents and tow truck drivers share ALPR data
Repo agents, rental trucks, tow truck drivers and even garbage trucks share you ALPR data with law enforcement
Three years ago, an article in the Mecury News revealed that San Jose, California wanted to install ALPR’s on garbage trucks.
“The data would be fed directly to the Police Department from the privately operated trash trucks, prompting an officer to respond to stolen vehicles or cars involved with serious crime.”
And in 2015, I wrote an article about how DHS and law enforcement use 200,000 garbage trucks to spy on everyone.
If you think the ALPR nightmare story stops there, you would be wrong.
For years now, law enforcement has also been using ALPR’s in shopping malls and parking lots to spy on innocent Americans. They are even thinking of putting ALPR’s in car washes. (Click here to find out more.)
In three short years, DHS went from cancelling plans to create a national license plate tracking system with the DEA, to using the US Border Patrol to accomplish what it could not. (Click here to read about the DEA’s highway ALPR’s.)
Four days ago, an article in the Verge revealed that DHS used the US Border Patrol to accomplish its goal of national license plate tracking system.
As you can see, police state Amerika is alive and well and is doing everything in its power to destroy our Bill of Rights in the name of public safety.
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/01/no-warrant-needed-for-police.html
“What does law enforcement mean by ‘other activities of interest’?
Being within their sphere of attack-ability.
“Police boast of sharing license plate data without a warrant…”
Warrant?
Immaterial, these days.
Everything they do is illegal anyway, so that piece of paper is only good for tinder.