We were so busy worrying about the government paying for Sara Fluck’s condoms that we didn’t bother to notice that, now, every movement we make outside our homes (and many inside our homes) are now tracked and logged.
Might as well get used to it.
License plates are made to be observed. Sometimes they are observed by a person, and now they are observed by machines.
Hoping not to get in trouble for this, but couldn’t they filter the license data by having Deplorables on file but deleting persons of color?
Otherwise the license plates and search data are racist./s
Example is when dna samples of black men questioned are not needed for a trial, and the person may have been totally unconnected to the criminal, the dna record is supposed to be expunged. Otherwise, the police had thousands of male dna records to search through looking for crimes they may have committed recently.
My state only has rear license plates. They must hate that I back in to stalls. :)
One thing to note about the case in point here. It’s likely, although not stated, that the Deplorable who was arrested lied to the FBI about his whereabouts during the rally, probably denying that he ever went to DC.
He now facing 10 years for lying, just due to those cameras. And who knows, maybe that was the intent all along. In other words, perhaps the FBI knew he traveled to DC, likely was at the rally, but literally had no evidence. They contact him, lie to him, scare him, and get him to say he never went to DC. And while people shouldn’t lie to the police (that’s what attorneys are for), his life is now ruined, when otherwise he would have been fine.
That’s what these cameras can do to people.
There is a popular bar near my house, at about 9:00pm a unit would cruise through the lot and scan all of the plates, return at 11:30pm, and do it again. Any plates that matched would be entered into that night’s “watch”. When the car passed any cop car in town, the computer would alert the officer, and the driver would get pulled over, on a pretext. Turned out the owner was friends with the mayor, and leaned on him to stop the practice.
I’ve noticed these before and will take your picture even when it’s not a toll. Going into California same thing. It was the only thing that made sense - they’re tracking cars via plates.
In would never advocate a polarized see thru cover for your license plate and would certainly never advocate a IR LED license plate frame in areas with traffic cameras.
Personally, I don't want my tax dollars to go government for anything. Period. They have taken too much already. I don't want more government. I want less. I want my freedoms back. I want my privacy back. The last thing I want is to be watched 24 hours day by anyone. I certainly don't want to pay for it.
Well, most of us are stupid enough to carry a tracking device disguised as a cell phone everywhere we go, so what’s the big deal about license plates?
Being observed in public is different than having a permanent record of that activity, whatever it is.
Most local police departments now operate drones with a suite of privacy invading gadgets. These drones are capable of covering a 20 square mile “target” box where they are able to read every license plate 24 x 7. The federal government is incentivizing local PD’s to fly these drones, so that crimes can be “back-tracked”.
“Back-tracking” means that if the Police come upon a murder, they will be able to see who came and went from that address for the time period in question. These drones’ camera resolutions are so high, that they are capable of facial recognition. So they then follow that person backwards in time to see who might have participated or been in contact with the suspect prior to the murder having been committed.
Some are equipped with ground penetrating radar, which allows them to observe people within their homes, and they likely can hack into your computer using directed radio energy to obtain access to your computer, whether it’s connected to the internet or not. Encryption won’t work, as the keys are stored locally on your machine, or if you are a wise-guy and decide to “air-gap” your system and store your key on a usb flash drive, or some such, the government has the ability to crack any encryption, in near real-time.
The government has underground warehouses of computer systems, which use playstation processors (playstation processors are the best computing horsepower, in the sense that they do the most computing while releasing the least amount of heat). Heat is a major issue for the banks of computers that the government has that decrypt communications. I do recall at the outset of their building the underground facility in Utah, the government had requested bids (publically) for a cooling system with a 12 giga-watt capacity, which should give you an idea of the number of processors they have working on encryption.
As a routine matter, I encrypt almost every internet communication I engage in, if for no other reason, than to gum up the government’s works, in that if they want to decrypt my communications, then they must devote computing horsepower to do so, and if enough people encrypted their communications, they simply couldn’t decrypt everyone’s communications. So I’d urge everyone to encrypt as much as they can, and to use VPN’s for their web browsing. I use proton email and proton’s vpn, for about $4/month.
It’s probably far too late for me to get off the “re-education” list that the government is keeping, especially after this post.
Yet the FBI and the local police cannot locate the democrat pipe bomber that was at the protest in Washington. They darn well know who it is and am protecting the democrat bomber.