Privacy fears raised over massive DEA license plate tracking program

In a little-known surveillance effort, the Drug Enforcement Administration is operating a massive national license plate reader program and has collected hundreds of millions of records of drivers on U.S. highways, according to the ACLU. Documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union describe a burgeoning DEA effort, begun in 2008, to take digital snapshots of automobiles, their occupants and their license plates as they pass by high-tech cameras in at least eight states, including California, to catch criminals smuggling money and contraband into Mexico.

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