KOAT - The American Civil Liberties Union is scrutinizing a new device that is being put up at New Mexico border checkpoints. Border agents have installed specialized scanning devices that track all drivers at New Mexico checkpoints.
The ACLU said the devices cause profiling and violate privacy rights. "We don't think law enforcement should be broadly fishing through the American public, trying to figure out who is suspicious and who is not and making judgment about those people as potential criminals," ACLU executive director Peter Simonson said.The specialized recognition devices capture license plates, date, time and location and save the information for years.
The Drug Enforcement Agency said it is using the technology to identify and catch drug and weapon smugglers, but the ACLU said it's violation of civil rights and privacy.
"It's our assumption that it's not just license plates that are being scanned that those cameras also use facial recognition software and that purpose try to identify not just the vehicle, but the person behind the steering wheel," Simonson said. Read full story here: News New Mexico
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