Folks ain't laughin no mo.
ALPR’s (automatic lic plate readers) along roadways, surveillance drones, Alphabet soup spying on internet/phone/CCard records, fake cell towers (gleaning cell phone data), TSA/DHS body searches, Digital photos/thumb prints on state DLs incorporated into bio-metric data bases...such as facial recognition, alarming increase in swat raids from a few thousand a decade ago to over 85K nationwide.
America is becoming an effin police state.
That might be happening with this issue too...
That probably would have been me! Good to hear from you again servant. lurkedforadecad aka savant! 777 ;)