DHS Seeking to Buy Access to Private Surveillance Cameras to Track Drivers

"Despite the ongoing debate to roll back the Department of Homeland Security’s current civil liberties overreaches, the DHS is soliciting bids from corporations for access to license plate data collected by private surveillance systems. In a public statement, the Department said it’s 'not seeking to build a national database or contribute data to an existing system,' rather, the DHS claims to be tapping into existing networks."