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Never has it been more urgent for people
around the country to take action to end the government’s mass
surveillance against the people.
 Most
people are not aware that silently, but constantly, the government is
now watching, recording your everyday travels and storing years of your
activities in massive data warehouses that can be quickly “mined” to
find out when and where you have been, whom you’ve visited, meetings
you’ve attended, and activities you’ve taken part in. This is all done
by using an elaborate network of Automatic License Plate Recognition
cameras, also known as tag readers.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has
spent years investigating and uncovering this mass surveillance grid
that is being put in place in the United States in the absence of public
awareness, scrutiny, debate or oversight.
It’s a system of mass surveillance and data
warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens. You’re being tracked
routinely, without probable cause, without a warrant and without even a
suspicion that you have committed a crime.
The public has a right to know about this
program and to stop it. The PCJF has established a national campaign,
One Nation Under Surveillance, with a proactive website providing the
tools and information you can use to take action now.
ALPR is a technology of social control. And
it’s not just critics who call it so. The International Association of
Chiefs of Police, which itself favors tag readers, acknowledged in a
report “The potential privacy harm of surveillance is its potential use
as a tool of social control.”
- Send a letter to representatives in Congress
demanding public hearings to expose this widespread but covert mass
surveillance. It will only take a minute. A sample letter is included
feel free to add your own message. click here
Background on Tag Readers;
Battlefield and Occupation Technologies Migrate Home:
 Originally
developed by the United Kingdom to be used against the Irish Republican
Army, later deployed by the U.S. in Baghdad, tag readers have now been
adapted for routine and massive deployment against civilians in the U.S.
Tag readers are physical cameras that can be
stationary, mounted on traffic poles, gates or bridges, hidden in white
and orange traffic barrels, or disguised in roof-mounted taxi-signs. A
tag reader captures thousands of license plates per minute, day or night
and records the date, time, photo of the vehicle and possibly
occupants, its immediate area and GPS coordinates.
The federal government has spent millions of
dollars outfitting local law enforcement, from big cities, to the
smallest towns with tag reader systems. Using the pretext of drug
interdiction and border enforcement, the federal government has
installed its own network of cameras that has grown and continues to
grow well past the borders throughout the U.S. The Department of
Homeland Security has created customized software to integrate the
surveillance data obtained through all the different vendor systems that
are on the market and used by different localities. The federal
government has a massive datastorage center for tag reader information
located in Northern Virginia.
With a plate and a cross-reference to other
databases (like the Department of Motor Vehicles, credit card companies
and phone records) a full profile about you can easily be created
through electronic and computer data. The fusion of license plate
reader data with commercial databases and intelligence databases gives
the government virtually unlimited knowledge of our activities and
associations.
Working together we can halt this operation. With exposure and concerted public opposition, this program can be stopped.
Become a part of PCJF’s campaign to end illegal government surveillance -- take action today. |
