Secret program
The U.S.
Department of Justice has been working on a secret intelligence-gathering
program to build a national database and track the movement of millions of cars
in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported, adding that the new domestic
surveillance program can examine and store hundreds of millions of records
about the nation’s motorists.
The major goal of the license-plate tracking program, which is operated by
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is to seize cars, money and other
assets to fight drug trafficking. However, the use of the database has been
expanded to track and apprehend vehicles linked to other crimes, including
kidnapping, killings and rapes, the Journal reported, citing a government document
and people familiar with the matter.
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