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ICE to gain access to database that tracks license plates
2018-01-28
[The Hill] The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will soon have the ability to track license plates across the U.S., The Verge reported Friday.
Automatic Place Number Recognition (APNR). DL57DT6320 has delinquent student loans but no criminal history.
ICE has reached a deal with Vigilant Solutions, a top source for license plate data, to gain access to the firm’s database of billions of license plates. The move will allow the agency to start implementing location tracking for the plates.

"Like most other law enforcement agencies, ICE uses information obtained from license plate readers as one tool in support of its investigations," an ICE spokeswoman told The Verge in a statement.

"ICE is not seeking to build a license plate reader database, and will not collect nor contribute any data to a national public or private database through this contract."

Vigilant did not return multiple requests for comment by The Verge. Vigilant has built up its database using information from local law enforcement, car repossession firms and other private organizations.

Using the database, ICE agents will be able to see where license plates have been located over the past five years, as well as find individual’s residences, according to The Verge.

Officials can also be instantly alerted when new records of specific plates are located. Civil liberties groups slammed ICE’s access to the database.

"There are people circulating in our society who are undocumented," American Civil Liberties Union senior policy analyst Jay Stanley told The Verge. "Are we as a society, out of our desire to find those people, willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us?"
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Texas issues two plates like many states. Only the rear plate is required, the front one is 'recommended'.

Down here one plate goes on the registered car. The other goes on the 'undocumented' car.

Much like gun registration and background checks the vast balance of data will be of law abiding citizens.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-01-28 11:58  

#5  Prob to balance earlier news of china's "billions of faces" database.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-01-28 11:53  

#4  Billions of license plates sounds a bit high, unless you include all those old plates hanging on garage walls everywhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-01-28 09:16  

#3  either the info is mostly going to be off limits for most law enforcement, like the traffic cameras, OR they are going to need at least 3 additional floors for all the lawyers.
Posted by: Nguard   2018-01-28 08:36  

#2  If they could match uninsured drivers I'd be more supportive
Posted by: Frank G   2018-01-28 08:09  

#1  Hit the 'CTRL-M' menu to sort by political party or affiliation. CTRL-W safely deletes entitlement groups from your screen.

CTRL-S will initiate targeted vehicle sonic attack (loud ringing or a high-pitch chirping similar to crickets or cicadas).
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-28 07:19  

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