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Government Surveillance: Those Signs Showing Your Speed May Be SPYING On You<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Those signs that show you how fast you are traveling may be a part of a United States government surveillance program. That sign might not only be there to remind you what the speed limit is but a part of a dystopian\u00a0\u201cBig Brother\u201d spy network.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere used to be an old police saying, \u2018If you robbed a bank, please drive carefully,\u2019\u201d former NYPD Detective Sergeant and Bronx Cold Case Squad commander Joseph Giacalone told <\/a>Quartz. <\/em><\/a>Giacalone\u00a0that if a getaway driver didn\u2019t do anything to attract the attention of police and get pulled over, they usually had a half-decent chance of fleeing. \u201cBut that\u2019s no longer in effect because you can drive slow, you can stop at every red light, but these license plate readers and surveillance cameras track your every movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0recently released<\/a>\u00a0US federal contracting data, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be expanding the footprint of its nationwide surveillance network with the purchase of \u201cmultiple\u201d trailer-mounted speed displays \u201cto be retrofitted as mobile LPR [License Plate Reader] platforms.\u201d The DEA is buying them from RU2 Systems Inc., a private Mesa, Arizona company.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not all.\u00a0 Two other related contracts have been found, as reported by Quartz.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The two contracts show that the DEA has hired a small machine shop in\u00a0California<\/a>, and another in\u00a0Virginia<\/a>, to conceal the readers within the signs. An RU2 representative said the company providing the LPR devices themselves is a Canadian firm called\u00a0Genetec.<\/a>\u00a0The DEA\u2019s most recent budget\u00a0describes\u00a0<\/a>the program as<\/a> \u201ca federation of independent federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement license plate readers linked into a cooperative system, designed to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to interdict drug traffickers, money launderers or other criminal activities on high drug and money trafficking corridors and other public roadways throughout the U.S.\u201d .<\/p>\n

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Government Surveillance: Those Signs Showing Your Speed May Be SPYING On You Those signs that show you how fast you are traveling may be a part of a United States government surveillance program. That sign might not only be there to remind you what the speed limit is but a part of a dystopian\u00a0\u201cBig Brother\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4674,6489,6490,22090,765],"class_list":["post-38670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-government-surveillance","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-speed-limit","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38671,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions\/38671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}