{"id":17082,"date":"2016-01-29T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17082"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:06:03","slug":"meet-vigilant-solutions-the-private-company-storing-2-2-billion-license-plate-photos-selling-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17082","title":{"rendered":"Meet Vigilant Solutions \u2013 The Private Company Storing 2.2 Billion License Plate Photos & Selling the Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet Vigilant Solutions \u2013 The Private Company Storing 2.2 Billion License Plate Photos & Selling the Data<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Vigilant Solutions is a company that will be familiar to longtime Liberty Blitzkrieg readers. It was first highlighted in the early 2014 post,\u00a0Department of Homeland Security Moves to Install National License Plate Tracking System<\/a><\/strong>, in which we learned the following:<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers,\u00a0according to a government proposal that does not specify what privacy safeguards would be put in place.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The national license-plate recognition database, which would draw data from\u00a0readers that scan the tags of every vehicle\u00a0crossing their paths, would help catch fugitive illegal immigrants,\u00a0according to a DHS solicitation.\u00a0But the database could easily contain more than 1\u00a0billion records and could be shared with other law enforcement agencies, raising concerns that the movements of ordinary citizens who are under no criminal suspicion could be scrutinized.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The agency said the length of time the data is retained would be up to the winning vendor.\u00a0Vigilant Solutions, for instance, one of the leading providers of tag-reader data, keeps its records indefinitely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fast forward two years, and \u201ccould easily contain 1 billion records\u201d sounds trite compared to the reality. According to a recent article in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>, Vigilant Solutions has already has taken 2.2 billion license plate photos, and is adding more at a clip of 80 million per month.<\/p>\n

From the\u00a0Atlantic<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Throughout the United States\u2014outside private houses, apartment complexes, shopping centers, and businesses with large employee parking lots\u2014a private corporation,\u00a0Vigilant Solutions, is taking photos of cars and trucks with its vast network of unobtrusive cameras. It retains location data on each of those pictures, and sells it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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