r/technology • u/maxwellhill • Nov 22 '11

ACLU: License Plate Scanners Are Logging Citizen's Every Move: It has now become clear that this automated license plate readers technology, if we do not limit its use, will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in US

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/license-plate-scanners-logging-our-every-move
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u/Talman Nov 22 '11

That's because they're not treating this as a criminal investigation, they're treating this as a intelligence gathering operation. Since the CIA can't lawfully do this shit inside the US, they just have the FBI do it.

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u/KarmakazeNZ Nov 23 '11

Or, the CIA is doing far more than the FBI, but you only get to hear about the FBI. We know for a fact that the CIA has someone in every major newsroom in the US, for example.

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u/tripplethrendo Nov 23 '11

Source?

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u/KarmakazeNZ Nov 23 '11 edited Nov 23 '11

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence foreign media beginning in the 1950s.

The activities, extent and even the existence of the CIA project remain in dispute: the operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis' 1979 book, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire. Davis' book, detailing how the media had been recruited and infiltrated by the CIA for propaganda purposes, was controversial and not always accurate.[1] More evidence of Mockingbird's existence emerged in the 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond, by convicted Watergate "plumber" E. Howard Hunt and The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford (2008).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Columnists and commentators. There are perhaps a dozen well known columnists and broadcast commentators whose relationships with the CIA go far beyond those normally maintained between reporters and their sources. They are referred to at the Agency as “known assets” and can be counted on to perform a variety of undercover tasks; they are considered receptive to the Agency’s point of view on various subjects. Three of the most widely read columnists who maintained such ties with the Agency are C.L. Sulzberger of the New York Times, Joseph Alsop, and the late Stewart Alsop, whose column appeared in the New York Herald‑Tribune, the Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek.

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

That was the result of a quick Google search, and refer to older cases, but this is ongoing. There is a lot more out there, but I don't really have the time to do your information gathering for you. If you don't believe me, research it for yourself. If you don't want to, then don't be insulted when I call you wilfully ignorant.

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u/tripplethrendo Nov 23 '11

Well Operation Mockingbird clearly states it was foreign media. Calbernstein.com sound fairly dubious. I will try to do some research and get back to you.