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| Subject: Ugh: ICE Finally Gets The Nationwide License Plate Database It's Spent Years Asking For Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:17 am | |
| ICE is finally getting that nationwide license plate reader database it's been lusting after for several years. The DHS announced plans for a nationwide database in 2014, but decided to rein that idea in after a bit of backlash. The post-Snowden political climate made many domestic mass surveillance plans untenable, if not completely unpalatable. Times have changed. The new team in the White House doesn't care how much domestic surveillance it engages in as long as it might aid in rooting out foreign immigrants. The first move was the DHS's updated Privacy Impact Assessment on license plate readers -- delivered late last year -- which came to the conclusion that any privacy violations were minimal compared to the national security net benefits.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180129/16200039113/ice-finally-gets-nationwide-license-plate-database-spent-years-asking.shtml
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