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Violation. the second way of using this technology is to actually turn license plate readers into license plate trackers. that is happening all over the country. it is already happening in every state. the department of homeland security, in fact, already has access to this huge database with nearly 2 billion records of perfectly innocent peoples driving habits. so this is the problem. when the information against people, against whom there is no allegation of wrongdoing is maintained in databas...

Worried about the unintended consequences of anything they do. this will get your attention. theres a new proposal this morning that could have the federal government tracking every move you make in your car. homeland security is now seeking a private contractor to build a national license plate tracking system. many local police departments already track license plates. but this system will connect all of those local databases, to make it much easier to know where people are going. critics sa...

Core. >> a lot of people agree with that. do you like your soda if you are in illinois they want to tax it. proposed bill would add 1 penny to every ounce of battled and canned sugary drink. a chicago lawmaker is behind the idea saying attacks on sugary drinks will save the state money by taxing people toward healthier juices. at this point it has not done any further. >> department of homeland security pushing a new plane to track drivers to combat crime. it is raising privy concerns. lori is j...

I handed it back to him. >> but enhancing it would come at a price. >> that would destroy the dna profile of the blood the fingerprint was left in. >> investigators decided the risk was worth it. the print was sprayed with amino black, a chemical dye that reacts with the proteins in blood. >> we decided it was as good as the print was going to get. >> the result was a partial print of a fingertip. investigators entered the print into the nationwide database of known criminal offenders and the re...

>> it creates a comprehensive data base of where people go, what they do and creates a net that no matter how innocent you are, you cant escape having your movements permanently monitored and recorded. >> critics say the camera systems is often described as the most photographed city on the planet, are increasingly being used by small municipalities in the u.s. for two reasons. the technology is getting cheaper and the federal government is subsidizing this technology. in a statement, homeland s...

Giving new insight into how edward snowden got access to the agencys huge database. it says a civilian employee has resigned after being reprimanded forgiving snowden access to his password. he tricked his co-worker by getting her to use it at his terminal. >> in tennessee, the son-in-law of a retired couple killed by a package bomb has been charged with their murders. police say richard parker left a note with the bomb but they are not revealing what that note said. friends of the retired coupl...

National database either. >> we had no one to compare that dna profile with. or at least i should say we had no one to successfully compare it with. >> investigators were convinced that pat mcrae knew his killer. there was no forced entry into the house, which meant he probably let the killer in. and the blood evidence showed rather brazen behavior. blood on the front drapes indicated the killer opened the drapes to look outside. the bloody foot impressions proved the killer walked out of the fr...

A dna sample was obtained from phillips bone marrow. it did not match the dna from the crime scene. >> i called and spoke with susans mother, and she was very disappointed. but you know, i tried to assure her that we would continue to go forward and try to identify the suspect. >> i was angry at the time, because i felt we had closure, it was done with. >> and there was more bad news. the dna did not match anyone in the statewide database of known criminal offenders. if the killer wasnt phillips...

Impetus. but i think it was just an ongoing impetus. >> so at the age of 37, david maxwell was accepted into the oldest and most exclusive law enforcement agency in north america, the texas rangers, an elite group with only 134 members. >> i thought about it a great deal, that if i became in law enforcement, if i was able to eventually get into the texas rangers and it remained unsolved, that i would be able to reopen the case and eventually solve it. >> and by this time, the houston police depa...

Before i die. >> with nowhere else to go, david turned to his friend, jim ramsey, a veteran homicide investigator with the houston police department. the two had known each other for years, but david never told jim about his sisters murder. >> i was shocked. i was amazed that anyone could hold that in and not talk about it. but if anyone could do it it would be david. >> i saw no need to tell people about what had happened in my life. i wasnt looking for sympathy. >> david could have had just ab...