Guardian - Federal agencies tried to use vehicle license-plate readers to track
the travel patterns of Americans on a much wider scale than previously
thought, with new documents showing the technology was proposed for use
to monitor public meetings.
The American Civil Liberties Union released more documents this week
revealing for the first time the potential scale of a massive database
containing the data of millions of drivers, logged from automatic
license plate readers around the US.
Further documents released by the ACLU on Wednesday
show that Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials in Phoenix
planned on “working closely” with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives to monitor public gun shows with the
automatic technology in 2009.
Although
the DEA has said the proposal was not acted upon, the revelations raise
questions about how much further the secret vehicle surveillance
extends, which other federal bodies are involved and which other groups
may have been targeted.
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