Stalking
Government documents obtained by the ACLU show that the Drug Enforcement Administration has been tracking the movement of millions of vehicles across America using license plate readers. “If license plate readers continue to proliferate without restriction and the DEA holds license plate reader data for extended periods of time, the agency will soon possess a detailed and invasive depiction of our lives,” blogged Bennet Stein and Jay Stanley of the ACLU.
Related: On Gizmodo, the EFF’s Rainey Reitman lays out their master strategy for defeating mass surveillance worldwide. It includes getting tech companies to “harden their systems,” convincing more people to encrypt their own communications, and a host of legal and policy fights.
Some law enforcement officers want Waze to disable what they call its “police stalker” feature, citing a danger to officer safety, AP reports.
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