Ice Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates(theintercept.com)

51 pointsby JumpCrisscross21 hours ago3 comments

jeegsy20 hours ago
either way, the surveillance state beckons
ChrisArchitect17 hours ago
https://archive.ph/r2yaW
link to the thing https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeign25hjov5cjxt6oei6zp5ei7k4wbkgm4...
tokyobreakfast21 hours ago
ICE drives rental cars so it's a matter of time before delusional superhero cosplayers attack a random guy in town for a shower curtain ring convention who happens to get the same car next.
- advisedwang21 hours ago
  You have a valid point about accuracy, but we haven't seen any incidents of violence on ICE agents at all, so I wouldn't worry about this causing mistaken ones.
  - plorg17 hours ago
    Other public reporting notes that the system used, while heuristic in some cases, includes multiple different kinds of ICE ~oracles, so just seeing a rental car isn't enough for anyone to treat a vehicle as "confirmed" anyways.
- elil1721 hours ago
  Maybe ICE shouldn't use rental cars then.
  - Terr_20 hours ago
    Hell knows they've got the budget for it, as last year Republicans voted to give them more money than many foreign militaries, and more than all other Federal law enforcement combined.
    https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/34767/allocation-of-us-fe...
    And now they're trying to pour even more of your tax dollars into the lawlessness:
    https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-statement-on-house-...
  - plorg17 hours ago
    Hell, with the way they're using them as weapons and abandoning them any self respecting rental company should be dropping them as customers anyways.