50% of american adults in law enforcement facial recognition databases

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Half of All American Adults are in a Police Face Recognition Database, New Report Finds — Georgetown Law

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

And then there's the defacto tracking of people. Police cars in the US often have cameras on the front end that take pictures of all the license plates of the cars they pass. That gets uploaded to a database along with GPS data.

A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like road signs and bridges, use small, high-speed cameras to photograph thousands of plates per minute.

The information captured by the readers – including the license plate number, and the date, time, and location of every scan – is being collected and sometimes pooled into regional sharing systems. As a result, enormous databases of innocent motorists’ location information are growing rapidly. This information is often retained for years or even indefinitely, with few or no restrictions to protect privacy rights.

You Are Being Tracked

 

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And then there's this:

The Postal Service on Friday confirmed that it takes a photograph of every letter and package mailed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year — and occasionally provides the photos to law enforcement agencies that request them as part of criminal cases.

The images are taken at more than 200 processing plants around the country and are used primarily to help the agency sort mail, the postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

But Mr. Donahoe said that the images had been used “a couple of times” by law enforcement to trace letters in criminal cases, including one involving ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. The images of letters and packages are generally stored for a week to 30 days and then destroyed, he told the A.P.

Last month, The New York Times reported on the practice, which is called the Mail Isolation and Tracking system. The program was created by the Postal Service after the anthrax attacks in late 2001 killed five people, including two postal workers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html?_r=0

I'm sure if the government still thinks its missing something on you, they can roll over to Facebook and look you up or pull your cellphone data.

 

[Pickman's model]

And then there's the defacto tracking of people. Police cars in the US often have cameras on the front end that take pictures of all the license plates of the cars they pass. That gets uploaded to a database along with GPS data.



You Are Being Tracked

yeh they have that here, automatic number plate recognition, anpr.