“To me, that may be where you are starting to cross the line on mass collection of information on innocent people just because you can,”
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“To me, that may be where you are starting to cross the line on mass collection of information on innocent people just because you can,”


Navy database tracks civilians' parking tickets, fender-benders, raising fears of domestic spying

A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement in a minor fender-bender are enough to get a person's name and other personal information logged into a massive, obscure federal database run by the U.S. military.
The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, has already amassed 506.3 million law enforcement records ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred...

...Pawn shop records and parking tickets are that kind of questionable information.

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- Culture Clash In A Nutshell And Parking Tickets As Diagnosis Tool
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