Chicago DUI lawyer says Big Brother has arrived in Illinois and your license plates provide a wealth of information about you

This Chicago DUI lawyer posted here and here about technology to scan license plates. Now, they are arresting people for driving with suspended/revoked license using this technology here in the Land of Lincoln. The technology is amazingly accurrate.

September 11, Collinsville, IL

CitySync Technologies have been working very closely with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to provide additional hotlist database information for Police Departments.

The Secretary of State (SOS) has provided two CitySync customers with a SOS Test database before releasing it to the rest of the world. The first Illinois department to try out the database was MEATTF, a stolen vehicle task force part of ISP District #11.

Director Gary Brewer of MEATTF has informed CitySync that the SOS data went live last Wednesday morning and by Wednesday afternoon his team had pulled over and arrested 8 vehicles for Revoked / Suspended driver’s licenses.

The CitySync System can recognize, check and then store thousands of license plates per hour along with GPS co-ordinates and is extremely user friendly. It can be operated using a touch screen with a few simple button pushes.

Did you notice they were using the technology purportedly to recover stolen vehicles? The erosion of privacy rights continue.