Thieving DEA has been scanning millions of license plates so it can confiscate people's assets

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been collecting information about millions of people in the US with a semi-secret networks of automated license plate-readers. Its main purpose is for enabling law enforcement to take people's money without charging them of any crime:

Quote :: The program was started to assist the controversial civil asset forfeiture program which allows law enforcement to seize a suspected criminal’s property without the suspect ever being convicted of the alleged crime.

But it is also useful for police and politicians to stalk and spy on people they hold a personal grudge against:

Quote :: Backchannel reported in December that police have used their access to license plate readers to stalk former colleagues, and IB Times revealed earlier this month that Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) used location data to smear a political rival.

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Thieving DEA has been scanning millions of license plates so it can confiscate people's assets

Thieving DEA has been scanning millions of license plates so it can confiscate people's assets

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Via AnCaps: Law & Enforced Unnatural Order