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Navy database tracks civilians' parking tickets, fender-benders, raising fears of domestic spying
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Posted on 03/22/2014 11:02:31 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement in a minor fender-bender are enough to get a person's name and other personal information logged into a massive, obscure federal database run by the U.S. military.

The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, has already amassed 506.3 million law enforcement records ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred.

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1 posted on 03/22/2014 11:02:31 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Navy database tracks civilians’ parking tickets, fender-benders, etc., ...........

Meanwhile, they cannot track a Boeing 777.


2 posted on 03/22/2014 11:04:45 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Red in Blue PA

The Navy needs this why?


3 posted on 03/22/2014 11:06:11 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yeah, this really secures our territorial waters and ensures our access to the seas.


5 posted on 03/22/2014 11:21:18 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I found this alternate view posted on another site. I don’t think I’m gullible, but this makes the most sense to me. However, there’s been so many betrayals by our government, everything they do becomes suspect.

“The U.S. Navy is not tracking your parking tickets. The purpose of this program didn’t even have anything to do with 9/11. It arose out of the too many incidents of construction contractors bringing individuals on to Navy bases with no drivers licenses, revoked licenses, (or were illegal aliens) who then got into accidents and the contractor employer fending off lawsuits using the legal ploy of ‘the Navy let them on the base’, which technically is accurate because that contractor isn’t allowed to administer base security

So, people would then sue the Navy for damages and win. This program was designed to allow the gate and access personnel to quickly check individual contractor workers driving work vehicles in, or operating heavy equipment on base.

That’s the only reason for this program.”


6 posted on 03/22/2014 11:22:28 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: boycott
Meanwhile, they cannot track a Boeing 777.

I've got a great idea.

Why don't we microchip EVERYBODY, so that even if terrorists try to turn off airplane tracking systems, the people in the planes can still be tracked.
The terrorists themselves, would always be tracked.

It would be good for everybody.

< /s>

7 posted on 03/22/2014 11:29:23 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: boycott

Meanwhile, they cannot track a Boeing 777.

Big deal. Why should we? Is it our plane. I am sick of the entire thing. I hope we never find out what happened. Your stupid crack pisses me off. Typical liberal crap. You go find it if you think you can do better.


8 posted on 03/22/2014 11:32:36 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: F15Eagle

Ah, well, that explains it.


9 posted on 03/22/2014 11:34:59 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Red in Blue PA

On the police radio in Tulsa, I always hear them “clearing” someone on the NCIC database, when they do traffic stops.


10 posted on 03/22/2014 11:36:25 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: boycott
Maybe it's time everyone files a FOI request to know what is in the database about them, that would put a hitch in their giddy up.
11 posted on 03/22/2014 11:38:03 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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It arose out of the too many incidents of construction contractors bringing individuals on to Navy bases with no drivers licenses, revoked licenses, (or were illegal aliens)

IOW, the Navy wasn't securing it's own property but we're to sleep well knowing they're johnny on the spot securing the nation. Got'cha.

13 posted on 03/22/2014 11:39:07 AM PDT by bgill
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No need to be a dipsheet.

I was just poking fun that they were tracking parking tickets and fender-benders. Seems planes at sea would show up on their radar before parking tickets. Sorry that escapes your grasp.

The problem with you is that you’re an idiot. You would have a very difficult time finding anyone that knows me calling me a liberal.

Personally, I hope they find it. Not for me but for the families involved.

Lighten up!


14 posted on 03/22/2014 11:40:15 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Red in Blue PA

I wonder if they know about that parking ticket I never paid?


16 posted on 03/22/2014 11:41:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: boycott

They keep track of the tickets and accidents so that if a person gets 12 points they are banned from the base for a year and it is World wide. I love the idea. I was a traffic court judge and these idiots need to lose their privileges. I made sure quite a few did.


17 posted on 03/22/2014 11:43:20 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Just add LinX, The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, to the pile of other government surveillance:

NarusInsight (previously CARNIVORE) that the FBI uses to directly monitor email and electronic communications.

CALEA, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
which creates back doors in communications and Internet companies, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time. Used mostly by the FBI and Secret Service.

ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement), a massive data mining system run by the DHS.

PRISM - NSA system. (PRISM is a government codename for a data collection effort known officially as US-984XN.)

72 (known) Homeland Security “Fusion Centers” in the US. They are used for information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. military, and state- and local-level government.

“Other systems”, run by the 100+ federal police agencies, the other US major intelligence agencies (17 total), as well as those used by non-police and non-intelligence agencies in the government. There are lots of these.

Long since transcending the law of diminishing returns, most of these programs just represent the gathering and archiving of vast amounts of useless data, and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars to no practical end.

If all of this was reduced by 90%, its efficiency would significantly improve, and it would again be an effective tool against our foreign enemies. As things are now, the “information overload” effect is so great, the useful data is more hidden than a piece of hay in a haystack.


18 posted on 03/22/2014 11:45:17 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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Well they’ve got no business tracking my tickets and fender-benders.

Peace unto you. Have a nice weekend. I am going fishing.


19 posted on 03/22/2014 11:47:20 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Red in Blue PA

I had a not my fault AUTO accident in 1989, the ONLY accident in my driving career and the Federal DOT inspector who came to look over my business address last year upon my signing my work truck into the system for the first time, knew about that 23 year old accident.


20 posted on 03/22/2014 11:52:58 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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