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Tech Tyranny: Vehicle tracking all the rage for Surveillance State

Law enforcement and private companies alike are tracking vehicles across America.

by Liberty Nation
March 29, 2021
in Big Tech, Defending Our Rights
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Tech Tyranny_ Vehicle tracking all the rage for Surveillance State

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Imagine you’ve just driven to the supermarket, passing dozens of streetlights on the way, perhaps passing under a bridge or by a tow truck in the next lane. You leave your car in the parking lot. How many times during this short trip has your license plate been photographed and entered into a database, along with your GPS coordinates? For millions of unsuspecting Americans, the answer could be that the police or a private company has tracked their travel patterns, now in the full knowledge where they are and where they have been.

Article by Laura Valkovic from Liberty Nation.

vehicle tracking mapAutomated license plate readers (ALPRs) are devices that use a camera to automatically photograph any license plates they “see,” collecting the information in a database. As The Wall Street Journal recently described, the vast network of ALPRs across America “makes it nearly impossible to drive anywhere in the U.S. without being observed.”

ALPRs are placed near roads, with locations including streetlights, telephone poles, bridges, overpasses, toll plazas, and parking lots. As well as fixed points, the devices are also mounted on police patrol cars, tow trucks, garbage trucks, mobile trailers, and so on. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading digital rights group, patrol car-mounted ALPRs allow “police to ‘grid’ neighborhoods—driving up and down every block in order to gather information on parked vehicles. This data is uploaded along with GPS and time-date information to a searchable database.”

The EFF details the implications of this location-tracking dragnet:

“With just a few keystrokes, police can search the historical travel patterns of a vehicle or identify vehicles that visited certain locations. Police can also add vehicles to a ‘Hot list,’ which is essentially a watch list that alerts them whenever a targeted vehicle is caught on camera. If a patrol car has an ALPR, the officer will be notified whenever they pass a vehicle on the watch list. However, by default, ALPRs collect data on everyone, regardless of whether you have a connection to a crime. That means a lot of surveillance for no justifiable reason.”

According to the foundation: “Taken in the aggregate, ALPR data can paint an intimate portrait of a driver’s life and even chill First Amendment protected activity. ALPR technology can be used to target drivers who visit sensitive places such as health centers, immigration clinics, gun shops, union halls, protests, or centers of religious worship.”

In addition to logging the time and location, as well as vehicle information, the photos can also capture the driver and passengers, the surrounding area, and “may even include bumper stickers, which could reveal information on the political or social views of the driver.”

Requiring no warrant, this information is used and collected by law enforcement and private companies, and was reportedly instrumental in the arrests of several Jan 6. Capitol rioters, as well as the solving of other crimes. But what about the data of millions of law-abiding Americans?

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Public And Private

As usual in the surveillance industry these days, the lines between public and private are blurred. Private companies were hardly going to be left out of the action, collecting and selling the data to law enforcement and other entities like insurance providers, repossession firms, and money lenders. One ALPR operator, DRN Data, boasts over 20 billion total vehicle sightings.

Vigilant (owned by Motorola) sells to police and private operators from garbage collection to towing services to parking management, “effectively deputizing them in law enforcement,” as the WSJ described it.

A company called Rektor goes further with technology that can provide in real-time not just a license plate number, but also a vehicle’s make, model, color, and direction of travel. Advertising to fast food outlets and car washes, the company offers a “pay by plate” function; perhaps one day soon, your local drive-thru will simply deduct its bill from your bank account using your license plate information. Rektor also has a mobile app that allows individuals to scan license plates and identify vehicles on their smartphones. As Bloomberg commented about it, “The rise of more casual and cheap surveillance is putting tools once primarily used by law enforcement into the hands of virtually anyone.”

Some systems are also prone to mistaken identity, as they cannot read the state information on the plates – yet. Rather a problem if your criminal record and financial payments are at stake.

State Action

The EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance reveals the use of ALPRs in 825 known U.S. locations. Rules vary wildly across the country. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, at least 16 states have moved to limit the data collection in some way. However, at least one of those states – California – has been found by an auditor to be ignoring its own law.

An Alabama bill introduced in late 2020 would provide for ALPR cameras’ use by police with some confidentiality and data protection. A new California bill is far more ruthless, however.

Introduced by State Sen. Scott Wiener (D), the License Plate Privacy Act would ensure that license plates not being used in an active investigation are deleted after 24 hours and require annual audits of police compliance. In a March 23 hearing, Wiener, as well as Dave Maass of the EFF and Mike Katz-Lacabe of the Media Alliance, revealed the following tidbits about how this “mass surveillance” currently operates in the state:

  • The four jurisdictions thoroughly investigated by auditors were not compliant with existing law. They also skipped basic cybersecurity measures.
  • Less than 1% of the millions of plates captured are related to an active investigation or vehicle of interest.
  • Law enforcement is giving the data out “like candy” to other government agencies and non-government bodies around the country – in some cases shared with hundreds or up to 1,000 other entities.
  • The databases are often in the possession of a private company.
  • Databases in some jurisdictions also include the car owner’s name, address, date of birth, and criminal history.
  • Offices of other agencies have access to the data even if it is not relevant to a crime. 13,000 LAPD personnel have access to ALPR data at any given time.
  • California Highway Patrol saw 11 cases of misuse in one year.
  • Keeping data for long periods of time is likely unnecessary, as 80-90% of queries are related to data collected recently.

When it comes to mass surveillance, Katz-Lacabe perhaps described the situation most simply: “Instead of beginning an investigation after a crime is committed, now everyone is being investigated before any crime is committed.”

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Read more from Laura Valkovic.



Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?

Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.

There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.

Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.

Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.

We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.

To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We just launched a new GiveSendGo page. We also have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.

Thank you, and God Bless!

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