Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’
The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”.
UPDATE 20FEB2014
Department of Homeland Security 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 develop a national license-plate tracking system after privacy advocates raised concern about the initiative. The order came just days after ICE solicited proposals from companies to compile a database of license-plate information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers
Watch for this to re-emerge… they have just gone underground with this plan and it will re-emerge in a different form…