After ostensibly abandoning a plan last spring to develop a national license plate tracking system, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly resumed a modified version of the project.
DHS is now contacting companies that already track license plates for local, state, and federal law enforcement departments. Though the agency insists it has no intention of building a national tracking database, its plan is to gain access to all the smaller databases and thus have — basically — a national database.
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