Big Brother is, at last, watching you.

Some say that the Orwellian world where the government is looking through every crack, window, and TV set to keep track of you, just in case you are doing something wrong, never happened. It was fiction, was it not?

Turns out, Orwell got the date wrong, but not the agenda. And government is catching up rapidly.

The DOJ has been keeping millions of records in a huge database, of where people drove their cars, and when. The initial purpose was to keep track of possible drug dealers and transporters.

But the use of that database has been expanding to other government agencies having nothing to do with the drug trade.

And there is no sign the expansion of government intrusion into more and more of our formerly-private lives, is abating.

And the 4th amendment, which requires them to get a warrant from a judge to do so, and to present Probable Cause for believing you are breaking the law before getting that warrant, is nowhere to be found any more.

If you thought the government phone-spying scandal, where govt keeps track of data on millions (trillions?) of phone calls (again without the required warrant) was big, that's nothing compared to this one.

The trend is unmistakable.

Aren't you GLAD you voted for Big Government?

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http://news.yahoo.com/justice-depart...005649040.html

Justice Department spies on millions of cars: WSJ

Reuters
15 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has been secretly gathering and storing hundreds of millions of records about motorists in an effort to build a national database that tracks the movement of vehicles across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The newspaper said the main aim of the license plate tracking program run by the Drug Enforcement Administration was to seize automobiles, money and other assets to fight drug trafficking, according to one government document.

But the use of the database had expanded to include hunting for vehicles linked to other possible crimes, including kidnapping, killings and rape suspects, the paper said, citing current and former officials and government documents.

While U.S. officials have said they track vehicles near the Mexican border to combat drug cartels, it had not been previously revealed the DEA had been working to expand the database "throughout the United States," the Journal said, citing an email.

It said many state and local law enforcement agencies were using the database for a variety of investigations, the paper said.

It added it was unclear if any court oversaw or approved the program.