ICE to gain access to database that tracks license plates

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: January 26, 2018 at 10:12:35 AM EST
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: ICE to gain access to database that tracks license plates
>
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> ICE to gain access to database that tracks license plates
>
> By Jacqueline Thomsen - 01/26/18 10:05 AM EST 0
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> http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/370855-ice-to-gain-access-to-database-for-tracking-license-plates
>
> The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will soon have the ability to track license plates across the 
> U.S., The Verge reported Friday.
>
> 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 spokesperson 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 Verge.
>
> Officials can also be instantly alerter 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?”



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