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“ Police around the country have been affixing high-tech scanners to the exterior of their patrol cars, snapping a picture of every passing license plate and automatically comparing the plates to databases of outstanding warrants, stolen cars and wanted bank robbers…when a license plate is scanned, the driver’s geographic location also is recorded and saved, along with the date and time, each of which amounts to a record or data point. Such data collection occurs regardless of whether the driver is a wanted criminal—and the vast majority are not.

Um, what!? Is that legal? Civil liberties experts are appropriately alarmed. Perhaps you should be too. (via newsweek)

Fourth amendment? What’s that? Oh, you silly, silly citizen. Just shut up and buy more things.

(via wilwheaton)