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twoelevenJustice Department spies on millions of cars: WSJ
the obamacare website sends your data to net.advertising and tracking companies (a little more detail about what the government decided advertisers needed to know about you)
Reuters) - The Justice Department has been secretly gathering and storing hundreds of millions of records about motorists in an effort to build a national database that tracks the movement of vehicles across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.meanwhile,
The newspaper said the main aim of the license plate tracking program run by the Drug Enforcement Administration was to seize automobiles, money and other assets to fight drug trafficking, according to one government document.
But the use of the database had expanded to include hunting for vehicles linked to other possible crimes, including kidnapping, killings and rape suspects, the paper said, citing current and former officials and government documents.
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The Journal quoted Senator Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as saying the use of license plate readers "raises significant privacy concerns."
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the obamacare website sends your data to net.advertising and tracking companies (a little more detail about what the government decided advertisers needed to know about you)