Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Why American's Will Never Hear "Your papers, Please" here in the U.S.

In this article from The Guardian (UK) Newspaper, it is reported that the NSA is collecting ALL data on phone calls.  Not conversations, but the metadata (read the article).   Couple that with NSA's new Data Center and ability to capture "the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches" (quote from this article ). So basically ALL of your electronic communications are going to be captured and stored. Let's not even mention Cops using your cell phone GPS data to track where you've been.

What about your travels?  Our country is more and more being covered with traffic cameras, red light cameras, even cameras coupled with radar to catch speeders. Enter the Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) and it's ability to capture images of passing license plates, and police agencies who store the data indefinitely. Story here.

Most new cars now come standard with satellite GPS.  Do you think it's only one way? Cars are Bluetooth enabled, Satellite Equipped (OnStar & the like), and over 90% have "black boxes".

While the unconstitutional (in my opinion) DUI checkpoints are an established fact of life, unlike Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, we don't have to worry about checkpoints where we show ID and tell where we've been and where we're going. 

Our cars and phones are telling on us.

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