Federal Government Soon to Know Everywhere You've Driven

Paul Waldman

February 20, 2014

There are more license-plate cameras installed all the time. Now the government wants to put all the data together in one database.

Well here we go. A few days ago, Ars Technica spotted a listing on a federal government website, explaining that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is looking for a vendor who can assemble for them a database that brings together data from the all the license plate cameras that more and more police departments across the country are installing. You don't like the fact that the government has a file somewhere listing every call you've made on your cell phone? How do you feel about them knowing everywhere you've driven?