DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years 295
An anonymous reader writes with news that might make privacy advocates a bit uneasy. From the article: "Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and two sheriffs are asking permission to install stationary license plate scanners on the freeway in Beaver and Washington counties. The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug traffickers, but at a Utah Legislature committee meeting Wednesday, the sheriffs and a DEA representative described how the scanners also could be used to catch kidnappers and violent criminals. That, however, wasn't the concern of skeptical legislators on the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. They were worried about the DEA storing the data for two years and who would be able to access it."
Re:Mormons Politicizing Religious Goals (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)
"I am not a free man, I am a number!"
--no, that can't be right...
Re:Scanning versus storage (Score:0, Funny)
Freeways/interstate highways are actually funded my the military. They were actually put there to provide big enough lanes for tanks to travel on in case of invasion.
Re:Cut to the chase (Score:5, Funny)
How will this turn out? Let's see.
End result: Many innocent people have their rights violated, some arrests are made. About a million dollars are spent on one case to bring it to the supreme court, ten years of some person's life is lost fighting it, and eventually the DEA is told to stop. During this time, drug smuggling is reduced by less than one part in a million. Millions of dollars spent on the system are wasted when the system is dismantled.
Spending a million dollars is worth it if it prevents just one child's life from being destroyed by a marijuana joint.
Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)
If only the government had a listing of everyone's license plate. That would be scary!