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2019-07-08 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI, ICE use driver license photos without owners' knowledge or consent

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-08 00:25|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

Should be entitled "FBI, ICE leverage technology, seize the initiative.

I saw this GPS bumper sticker recently. I see no reason why GPS monitoring could not be linked to suspension of driver's license or vehicle confiscation for chronic offenders.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-08 00:42|| 2019-07-08 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 So when will they fire the FBI and CIA management that was involved in this overreaching decision?

Posted by gorb 2019-07-08 00:46|| 2019-07-08 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 There will be a lot of different opinions on this one. I am okay with it. If the gov watches me all day they'll just find out I drink too much and like cheeseburgers. In China, this works pretty well for tracking down criminals. The facial recognition is integrated with cameras in subway stations, bus stations, public places, etc., and if the police need to find someone they just put the system on alert and if the fugitive is spotted the system tells them in real time where he is at. I believe they use similar technology for traffic related stuff. Cameras can track your license as you are driving around, and if you run a red light or speed they'll capture it, and an hour or two later you get a phone call to come down to the police station and pay your fine. As a result, they don't really have urban traffic cops (let alone armed patrol cops). All in all I think it is a pretty good deterrent, and street crime/traffic infarctions are pretty low here.

Posted by Beau 2019-07-08 01:21|| 2019-07-08 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Facebook does about the same thing with any pictures posted there.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-07-08 01:28|| 2019-07-08 01:28|| Front Page Top

#5 It could alternately read as, 'university an media unhappy with feds finally doing their job'.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 03:48|| 2019-07-08 03:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Misleading headline. Drivers license photos are the property of the state that takes them. The FBI and ICE had the states permission when they accessed the databases. Dont want the state to have your picture? Dont get a drivers license. Its a privilege, not a right. Worked for Kacyzinsky.

We have a right to privacy in our home, not anonymity in public.

Apostrophe key broken. Sorry.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2019-07-08 05:40|| 2019-07-08 05:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Didn't the EU plan to use this technique to tax road use? IIRC the idea was dropped cause they couldn't get their own GPS to work.

Big brother will have us all in electronic monitoring collars soon enough. Then they can tax us on how many cheese burgers you eat, drinks you have, etc. etc.

Not for me thanx.

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-08 07:12|| 2019-07-08 07:12|| Front Page Top

It could be too late for the beef monitoring protocols. I saw the damn thing drive by and reduce speed while firing up my Weber.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-08 07:20|| 2019-07-08 07:20|| Front Page Top

#9 If the gov watches me all day they'll just find out I drink too much and like cheeseburgers.

Watch your health insurance premiums go up.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-08 08:21|| 2019-07-08 08:21|| Front Page Top

#10 It's a "Brave New World" for sure. Even Aldous Huxley would crap in his pants.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-07-08 09:06|| 2019-07-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#11 I foresee a rise in men's makeup, it seems an easy way to fool facial-recognition software! Of course one has to change it around from time to time...

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-07-08 10:33|| 2019-07-08 10:33|| Front Page Top

#12 It's a brilliant move. Watch illegals' desire to get drivers licenses plummet. Driving without a license is one more crime counting towards deportation. No license, no insurance. Two crimes. No license no instant voter registration and lots less illegals voting in voter ID states. All good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-08 11:20|| 2019-07-08 11:20|| Front Page Top

#13 And re the makeup thing, I say Bath House Barry masks for all.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-08 11:22|| 2019-07-08 11:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Time to rock'n'roll!

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-08 11:26|| 2019-07-08 11:26|| Front Page Top

#15 I doubt the states can fight this in court without tripping over the Real ID Act.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-07-08 11:31|| 2019-07-08 11:31|| Front Page Top

#16 This technology as certainly sped past any ability to discuss the ethics of it. The question is how much of this will invade our privacy, if at all. And what about future uses? The USG will be able to track you from your front door until you go back into your house, if you live in NYC or DC. The equipment is there, just not the software implemented...

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-07-08 11:50|| 2019-07-08 11:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Guy Fawkes masks or their high tech equivalent will soon be common place. Welcome to the CyberPunk™ future that we have read about for years.

Posted by magpie 2019-07-08 12:32|| 2019-07-08 12:32|| Front Page Top

#18 The equipment is there, just not the software implemented...

Oh?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-08 13:25|| 2019-07-08 13:25|| Front Page Top

#19 'Oh?'

Agree with Skidmark.

The State DMV's (around here, at least) can read your discrete cellphone (or vehicle's) bluetooth/MAC address as you drive down the major roads and Interstates. How do you think Google or WAZE can show the immediate traffic conditions ahead? Alchemy?

They know at about 95-97% of what vehicles are where and how fast they're going.

It's only a minor jump for vehicle/driver association and ID.

The new traffic cameras you see going up have really good resolution too, just sayin'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-07-08 16:20|| 2019-07-08 16:20|| Front Page Top

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