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Private Firm Wants Your Info in a Huge Database

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"Private firm Vigilant Video maintains a database called the National Vehicle Location Service (NVLS), containing hundreds of millions of data points showing the travel patterns of millions of people in this country. Now, according to PrivacySOS, the company — which is private and therefore not bound by the Fourth Amendment -- "has plans to create the largest private sector law enforcement database in the world, by combining plate reads with commercial databases, face recognition technology and more." Vigilant Video is a private firm- not bound by the Fourth Amendment-- and seeks to collect personal information and make a huge database which they would then...share with authorities. Has privacy invasion gone too far? Ana Kasparian and Dave Rubin discuss. *Read More from Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/private_firm_hoards_license_plate_data_plans_vast_database/singleton/