DHS cancels national license plate tracking plan
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of a plan by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to seek a national license plate tracking system.
The order came in the wake of a story by The Washington Post reporting that ICE last week solicited proposals from companies to compile a database of license plate information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers.
Methinks you weren’t supposed to hear about it.
Or is that too tinfoil-hattish? Seriously, I’m not sure “too paranoid” is even possible with the Out Of Control Gang running things. The feds jumped the shark long ago, and there’s nobody to call them to account, and the Lightbringer’s recent suggestion that they could just hire private companies to hold all that personal information for them and then it wouldn’t be in government hands until desired, as if that would solve anything – well. These people are clearly not planning any sudden swerves toward sanity any time very soon. So my guess is they’ll go right ahead with getting our license tag data into their inventory but try harder to keep it secret.
“The solicitation, which was posted without the awareness of ICE leadership …”
Sure. Just like Josef Stalin’s misdeeds were all the fault of over-enthusiastic underlings acting on their own authority without regard for what their kindly leader really intended.
Actually,the first thing I thought when I read that they were going to have a national license plate tracking scam,was,they already do that-now they’re just getting around to asking permission.