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The Trump administration is reportedly using a War on Drugs-era program to demand license plate data from police across the country. The DEA has fought to keep this program out of the public eye, so we don't even know how many jurisdictions are affected.

aclu.orgAre Police in Your Community Laundering License Plate Data Through Federal Drug Programs Into a Secretive Central Database? | ACLUNew report suggests this is a question local communities fighting against mass surveillance should be asking their elected officials

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War on Drugs era tech, brand new authoritarian paint job. They built the surveillance machine decades ago and just waited for someone shameless enough to drive it.

🤬 Sorry but to be so naive as to NOT expect that this is happening is infuriating. I mean the ALARMS ‼️ have been going off for over a decade how the Republican Party has shifted from The Right to full blown FASCISM!!!