Justice Department Tracks Millions Of Cars Daily Including YOU Via License-Plate Readers

The Justice Department has been building a national database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret domestic intelligence-gathering program that scans and stores hundreds of millions of records about motorists, according to current and former officials and government documents.

The primary goal of the license-plate tracking program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, is to seize cars, cash and other assets to combat drug trafficking, according to one government document. But the database’s use has expanded to hunt for vehicles associated with numerous other potential crimes, from kidnappings to killings to rape suspects, say people familiar with the matter.

vdiv - 1/27/2015 4:45:55 PM

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Wasn't aware that I am a car :p

These readers are insane, they can read the plates of a multi-lane highway traffic going by, OCR the numbers, look them up, and flag cars in near REAL TIME. The system is uplinked, so no-one has to be in the cruiser for it to be operational. Both the VA State Police and my county have cars equipped with it. Oh, and it works at night too.

PUGPROUD - 1/27/2015 8:17:03 PM

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I can save them the time and trouble. Tomorrow I'm going for coffee, then work, pickup some dry cleaning, taking my wife to dinner then home again for the night. Glad I could help!

tecnopolis - 1/28/2015 5:23:41 AM

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Remember, driving is a privilege, not a right!

leej - 1/28/2015 8:14:56 AM

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You can be tracked many ways today...cell phone, financial transactions, etc.

scenicbyway12 - 1/29/2015 9:56:26 PM

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How many people did Google track today.